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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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almarst2002 - 09:49pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12456 of 12474)

Blix: I was smeared by the Pentagon Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, lashed out last night at the "bastards" who have tried to undermine him throughout the three years he has held his high-profile post. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974998,00.html

In its annual report published yesterday, the committee criticises the way February's "dodgy dossier" on Iraq - compiled by the staff of Mr Blair's communications chief, Alastair Campbell, and containing material plagiarised from other sources - was published without MI6 clearance. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974834,00.html

almarst2002 - 10:02pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12457 of 12474)

Few Arabs dispute that, so far, the Americans have done badly - so badly that, in the view of Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, they risk provoking a "national awakening and war of attrition that make Vietnam seem like a picnic in comparison". - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974779,00.html

almarst2002 - 10:04pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12458 of 12474)

After the war US presence comes under fierce attack - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,972483,00.html

bbbuck - 10:11pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12459 of 12474)

A nuclear bomb has just been detonated in krakatoa.

http://that's-not-the-sun-that's-a-fcking-nuclear-megaton-bumm.com/

fredmoore - 10:17pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12460 of 12474)

Buck ...

Yes, the article says that the nearby hamlet of Krakatoeberg had to be evacuated. It was Robbed, looted and totally abandoned.

almarst2002 - 11:18pm Jun 10, 2003 EST (# 12461 of 12474)

Iraq put up a surprisingly heroic resistance against the Anglo-American invasion. The outcome was never in doubt. On the one side an oil rich country of 24 million people, ruled by an autocrat, debilitated by 12 years of sanctions and bombing. On the other side, history's most powerful military machine, directed by former oil executives. Cowards love a mismatch. http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/genx.php?name=home

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