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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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rshow55 - 11:03pm Jun 14, 2003 EST (# 12541 of 12548)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

I'm no more a Communist or "left winger" than Eisenhower was. Or than Berle or George Marshall was.

The information and speculation in 4427-8 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mPWkbkRJfxm.645465@.f28e622/5596 shouldn't be classified. It should be investigated. I should be free to ask for that investigation.

2739 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mPWkbkRJfxm.645465@.f28e622/3411

I'm not an asassin - like "Bourne" - - nor a "lost genius" like "Will" - - I've been working, with focus and discipline, doing the best I can to serve my society and fit into it, since 1970.

That was a misstatement, that made national security sense in the context of the time of writing. I've been doing my best since 1967. I surely cooperated - but after the government became clear about what I could do - after they looked at my work at Ernst and Ernst, and some things related to 7754 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mPWkbkRJfxm.645465@.f28e622/9280 -- I was commandeered - politely - and with me working cooperatively. But I had no effective discretion at all. No more than Mimi Beardsley had, by reasonable standards.

I have worked, and worked hard and honorably, to do what I was asked to do - and what I was asked to do fits well with the ideals of most Americans, and most citizens of EU countries.

I feel that if, for political reasons, I can't be debriefed and have my work declassified - (or classification clarified in writing) by the present US government in the direct fashion that would be most reasonable - I should nevertheless be permitted to work with other governments - perhaps with some reasonable prior restraint censorship.

I think that, if what I knew ( including especially what lchic and I have worked out ) were actually staffed and used - world economic growth rates could be much increased - probably doubled - and the world would be a more prosperous and comfortable and safer place.

almarst2002 - 05:59am Jun 15, 2003 EST (# 12542 of 12548)

THE case for the war on Saddam suffered another hammer blow last night after claims that Iraq tried to buy nuclear weapons were exposed as a lie.

It emerged that the CIA had investigated reports that Iraqi agents attempted to buy uranium in Niger - and found them false.

But 11 months later George Bush used the story to build his case for war against Saddam Hussein.

And Tony Blair put it in his assessment, which was presented to Parliament in September.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13064438_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-CIA-EXPOSE-NEW-LIE-IN-BLAIR'S-IRAQ-DOSSIER-name_page.html

lchic - 06:14am Jun 15, 2003 EST (# 12543 of 12548)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/q104733.html

lchic - 06:18am Jun 15, 2003 EST (# 12544 of 12548)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Thurs TV (Australia) - has 10 nations linking (prime time) to discuss .... you've got it ... The USA.

lchic - 07:18am Jun 15, 2003 EST (# 12545 of 12548)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Quote: I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

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