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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 - 10:31am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4065 of 4069)
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.

wrcooper 8/31/02 9:56am

in the meantime, I'll adress your question with things already said (and checkable) on this thread, mostly since March 2000, but some before that time.

Things that have been checked, in large degree.

I think a reasonable person, looking at the thread as a whole, would be likely to agree that the Bush administration already had something like a million dollars of staff work devoted to gisterme's responses.

If I'm wrong about that - the point could easily be checked by politicians or journalists.

A rather complete record exists of this thread, and is being made available. 3145-48 rshowalt 7/19/02 9:16am

It shows I make mistakes sometimes. But it will work as pretrial discovery , as well.

There are times that it seems to me that may be just what is needed.

lchic - 10:33am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4066 of 4069)

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lchic - 10:43am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4067 of 4069)

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lchic - 10:51am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4068 of 4069)

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rshow55 - 10:53am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4069 of 4069)
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lchic 8/31/02 10:33am

Because there is a criminal conspiracy - - and if I were free to work - - the odds are just too great that I'd take them apart.

There may be another explanation, but by now, for the life of me I can't see how any other makes sense.

An interesting thing - - any of a large number of people could solve my problem - - and I've had enough interactions (with US Senate offices, for instance) to be quite sure that this thread is being read - - but America is afraid.

Star Wars , and US nuclear policy, have been aberrations, that have persisted because standard checks and balances in the US political system were bypassed.

I believe that Americans and everyone who must deal with Americans (and everyone whose life is endangered by American actions and mistakes -- which is everyone) ought to carefully consider the concerns about the “military-industrial complex” set out in the FAREWELL ADDRESS of President Dwight D. Eisenhower January 17, 1961. http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm and consider what has happened since.

America is afraid .

Afraid to a degree that Eisenhower could have barely imagined.

We have work to do. It is a hopeful time.

But a terrible time, too.

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