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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 - 10:17pm Sep 15, 2002 EST (# 4330 of 4334)

Nuclear lies

lchic - 06:30am Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4331 of 4334)

"" Rumsfeld has said the issue is no longer one of inspectors returning...

Donald Rumsfeld does not speak on behalf of the Security Council, or even for the whole US administration. He speaks for Donald Rumsfeld. What he said exposes the hypocrisy of the Bush administration regarding the present situation in Iraq.

The Bush administration says on the one hand that a strike against Iraq is necessary because of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and in the same breath it says that the issue of the inspectors no longer matters. This suggests WMD are not the issue. What is the issue then? http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/603/fr2.htm

[ How's Bush going in the Mid-Terms? ]

lchic - 06:32am Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4332 of 4334)

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/603/cartoon.htm

lchic - 06:49am Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4333 of 4334)

http://www.thepolitic.org/main.cfm

""What Will Happen in the 2002 Congressional Midterms? by David Mayhew Let me take three cuts at this question, starting with the very general and ending with the particular.

For the very general cut, what if our minds were an absolute blank about everything that has happened since January 2001? Suppose we do not possess any knowledge at all.

rshow55 - 07:03am Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4334 of 4334)
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.

We'd wonder about lies. Gross inconsistencies. And how one deals with a staff of accomplished, professional, and powerful liars.

You'd need another staffed organization -- and one with contacts that were international.

This thread has prototyped some of the patterns for "connecting dots" that would otherwise be too scattered in space and time. These patterns could be used to collect evidence and arguments - from all interested parties - - and with umpires -- even sets of umpires for each side - so that coherent arguments about key matters of fact could come to focus. Many of the patterns of persuasion that so often work in jury trials could be brought to bear - so that anyone, on any side - could be asked (even, in some politically important ways, forced) to look for themselves.

I think these articles, which refer to political experience, fit here:

Democracy in Wartime by ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/opinion/03SCHL.html

"Senator Byrd Scolds Colleagues for Lack of Debate After Attack by ADAM CLYMER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/politics/02BYRD.html

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