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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 - 12:04pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4510 of 4511)
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.

It is now graciously suggested that the taxpayer pay three quarters of a billion dollars a piece for these white elephants. Stealth Bomber, Once Scorned, Gains Fresh Backing by JAMES DAO http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/national/26BOMB.html

almarst found one way, impressive mostly because it shows how easy and cheap these planes now are to detect --especially since they can take tens of hours to get to a target, because they fly so slow, and have little maneuverability.

MD 4905 almarst-2001 6/12/01 6:19pm .

MOBILE PHONE TECH MAY FOIL 'STEALTH' BOMBERS - http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/12/world/world2.html shows one way, among many to find these "sitting ducks" -- once you know the frequency properties of the anti-reflective radar coatings they use -- information that is now widely known, and can be inferred just from design knowledge.

rshowalter - 04:23pm Jul 8, 2001 EST (#6768

Now, I'll take a little time to talk about other fatal defects with the lasar weapon ideas. There are many.

This weapons system is a fraud -- and it is impossible for me to believe that the senior people at Boeing and the other major contactors can escape knowing it -- even if Rumsfeld, Rice, Hadley, Armitage, and others do not.

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Mystro a drum roll for these big-ticket items in procurement for the military industrial complex: 1318 rshow55 4/12/02 6:59pm

rshow55 - 12:16pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4511 of 4511)
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.

Culture War With B-2's By MAUREEN DOWD http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/opinion/22DOWD.html

The administration isn't targeting Iraq because of 9/11. It's exploiting 9/11 to target Iraq.

Ricky Jay, a Man Who Believes More in Magicians Than in Magic By EMILY EAKIN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/arts/theater/21QNA.html

Do you think people are less gullible today?

No, I don't. People are fooled in the same way and by the same things that they were fooled with 500 years ago, at the start of the printed literature. I think it must be a basic human quality.

These tactics are being used much too much -- defrauding the country financially and endangering the United States by pushing techincally incompetent decisions.

Bush 2000 Adviser Offered To Use Clout to Help Enron Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 17, 2002; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22380-2002Feb16&notFound=true

Just before the last presidential election, Bush campaign adviser Ralph Reed offered to help Enron Corp. deregulate the electricity industry by working his "good friends" in Washington and by mobilizing religious leaders and pro-family groups.

The New Jersey Ethicist by BILL KELLER http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/opinion/21KELL.html

" Allow me to quote my favorite moral philosopher, Karl Rove. Remember what he told Republican candidates back in June? "Focus on war." (O.K., he's no troubadour, but the man gets to the point.) D'you think he meant, "Let's all focus on the war and have a moment of silence and feel blue?" Of course not, knucklehead, he meant, "Take the war, and run the wussy Democrats into the ground with it."

Some responsible politicians, of both parties, ought to be asking careful questions. Leaders of other nation states should be asking them too.

They have a duty to do so.

In the long run, often enough, fraud and dereliction of duty are bad politics.

With the whole world watching, that might be true in this case. As for myself - - I'm doing what I think Casey would expect -- what Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur would expect - and I think what every one of the Signatories to the Appeal of October 2, 2000 would expect as well. 4491-2

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