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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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lchic - 09:15pm Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12866 of 12874)
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How many pairs of shoes could Emelda Marcos buy with $48B ?

almarst2002 - 10:26pm Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12867 of 12874)

U.S. Twisted Iraq Intelligence - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030706/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_intelligence_3

Yet nearly a year after he had returned and briefed CIA officials, the assertion that President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was trying to obtain uranium from Africa was included in President Bush (news - web sites)'s State of the Union address as the nation marched toward war with Saddam's Iraq.

The British and Italian governments initially reported the possible Niger-Iraq ties to the United States. Britain issued a public statement on the matter in September 2002, a few months before the president's speech.

If the British and Bush were referring to Niger, then "that information was erroneous, and ... they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British White Paper and the president's State of the Union address," Wilson said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

He said there are only two conclusions to draw: "Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts and intelligence to bolster a decision in a case that had already been made, a decision that had been made to go to war."

almarst2002 - 10:41pm Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12868 of 12874)

British officials knew there had been no secret trade in uranium from Africa to Iraq seven months before such claims were raised in the September dossier released by Downing Street, the retired US ambassador who investigated the supposed sales for the CIA said yesterday. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,992912,00.html

lchic - 01:42am Jul 7, 2003 EST (# 12869 of 12874)
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Nation States don't like to be lied to by their ruling elite.

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Bush to Africa but too late to meet up with N!xau - The Gods must be Crazy - bushman - dead

The "Gods Must Be Crazy" became a worldwide hit and a top grossing foreign film after its release in 1980. Audiences swooned over his portrayal of an earnest bushman with a sheepish smile whose discovery of a Coca-Cola bottle sets off a comedy of errors.

N!xau starred in several sequels before returning to the familiarity of life as a herdsman raising cattle and vegetables in the Namibian bush.

When he was discovered by the South African director of the film, Jamie Uys, he had only had minimal exposure to modern life.

According to a 2000 story in The Namibian newspaper, he had only seen three white people in his life before being cast, and had never seen a settlement larger than the village huts of his San people.

His name is a usual transliteration of his tribal language, which uses clicking noises that have no letter in English.

lchic - 01:53am Jul 7, 2003 EST (# 12870 of 12874)
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It's right and proper that an examination of 'the rush to war' be carried out ...

but --- what was the war(Iraq) really about .... stability of oil?

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Pity the stability forces don't educate the people regarding the way the Sadman operated --- how he juxtaposed cultural group against cultural group so that he had the upper hand .....

The guy never gives up .... sitting it out in whatever/underground hide out .... paying guys to dismatle and scrap aspects of the national Services Infrastructure to prevent the people getting working power and water supplies --- how crazy is this fallen god? Pity the people can't see through him. Pity the stability force can't develop an payment-edu system to get men on track and planning their 'next' phase in life.

lchic - 03:34am Jul 7, 2003 EST (# 12871 of 12874)
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Time for a recap on the world's major problems ... someone's bound to see Nukes as central to peace .... most wouldn't see it that way ...

If there was a world top ten wish list how would it unfold?

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