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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 - 07:28pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17188 of 17221)
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.

What's a pusil? A base from which pussilanimous derives.

cantabb - 02:02pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17100 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655439@.f28e622/18815 includes this.

Speaking Rshowalter [:)], when he's up from his nap, I just want him that he left our some details, citical to this thread, e.g:

Did he pass out his Corpus CD to his guests ?

yes

and (iv) Did he ask them to mediate with a shivering in its shoes NYT ? Would be good if they could . . . . ..

I didn't get that far. But you make an interesting suggestion - and maybe a useful one. But why should it be so hard - and take such a big threat - to get a clear agreement from the NYT that -

Anything that the NYT tells others about me - they also tell me And whatever agreement we come to about confidentiality or non-confidentiality can be shown to people I interact with - with the expectation that I ask these people to report back to me about whether their communication conforms to it.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

See 16724 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655439@.f28e622/18439 to 16728 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655439@.f28e622/18443

If we had that much in writing - we'd have a much more stable agreement.

And I might have a chance to set out in a broadcast what good faith negotiation - under real circumstances - takes.

It has been a lot of effort and many posts since October 7th, 14057 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655439@.f28e622/16217 - which includes:

The best thing for the country - and for almost everybody involved, in my opinion - would be for postings since 1445 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655439@.f28e622/16164 , or perhaps earlier, to be deleted - and people to find ways to closure that the people involved could live with honestly .

Stench in the Trench - easy to fall into, hard to get out of the futility of war http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm

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I'm doing exactly what Eisenhower and Casey asked me to do.

almarst2003 - 07:29pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17189 of 17221)

BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 -- Iraqis marched in anger through the streets here Monday after the killing of an American-appointed local Iraqi council leader by U.S. military guards under disputed circumstances.

Gen. John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command, to meet during the weekend with mayors and tribal leaders of Anbar province, the Associated Press reported this morning, quoting an Iraqi, Fallujah Mayor Taha Bedawi, who attended the meeting.

The Associated Press quoted Bedawi as saying that Abizaid pointed to Fallujah, one of the main towns in the Sunni Triangle, as a "hot area." Abizaid warned that if the city refuses to cooperate "in the rebuilding process," there "might be another policy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20807-2003Nov10?language=printer ----------------------------------------

American troops have clashed with suspected Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq. The US military confirmed that fire was exchanged between "unknown forces" and an Iraqi border patrol supported by US forces.

The statement came after Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that US forces had clashed with PKK rebels.

If confirmed, it would be the first known clash between US forces and the PKK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3257273.stm

WASHINGTON - In the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces would be welcomed by the Iraqi citizenry and that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. ------------------------------------

Now, after both statements have been shown to be either incorrect or vastly exaggerated, Rumsfeld - with the same trademark confidence that he exuded before the war - is denying that he ever made such assertions. http://www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003211090375

bbbuck - 07:33pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17190 of 17221)

Pussilanimous?

I don't think those are allowed in Chester, Nebraska.

But I'll check. Tell her she can come and then if I find out pusssil's aren't allowed we'll tell her the picnic's been cancelled.

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