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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 - 09:20am Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12864 of 12864)
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.

WORD FOR WORD The C.I.A.'s Cover Has Been Blown? Just Make Up Something About U.F.O.'s By STEPHEN KINZER http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/weekinreview/06WORD.html

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/758 . . . 235,000 U.S. servicemen were exposed to nuclear weapons testing during military duty. The people who gave the orders knew there were risks, but wanted numbers. Now, the danger is that we don't clean up our messes - and our corruptions.

Have I had some reasons to be afraid sometimes - as suggested in http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee9cff9/2640 ?

'From DOT to DOT you dance - like this . . Or disappear and die!'

And reason to be proud of what I'm doing? http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee9cff9/2379

Slower than a slow strip-tease . . over years he revealed . . slowly . . painfully . . with unease . . content

Some threats have been real - but I've thought some promises have been real, too. I've been keeping my promises - doing just exactly what I promised Eisenhower and Casey I'd do - and serving the national interest of decent Americans - and decent people in the world.

These postings refer to threats - or perhaps only "suggestions of threats":

12072-3 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QsfUbTTFnPL.597040@.f28e622/13703

12295 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QsfUbTTFnPL.597040@.f28e622/13943

12162 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.QsfUbTTFnPL.597040@.f28e622/13799

Nuclear Safety Weapons Official Rejects Complaint About Audit By MATTHEW L. WALD http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/05/national/05NUKE.html

WASHINGTON, July 4 — The top nuclear weapons official at the Energy Department has brushed aside a complaint by the department's inspector general . . .

From The Onion - - and only so funny

Bush Asks Congress for $30 Billion To Help Fight War On Criticism http://www.theonion.com/onion3925/bush_asks_congress.html

We can do better than that, and have to. A lot of people in the Bush administration, and all over the country, know that.

The cheerleading function is important - and Bush excells at that. But being right is important, too. Because consequences matter.

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