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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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lunarchick - 01:07pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5585 of 5586)

China - level of unemployment in urban areas is admitted to be 'double' that previously stated ..... names still 'listed' with former employers as 'employed'.

fudging figures

rshow55 - 01:54pm Nov 11, 2002 EST (# 5586 of 5586)
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.

If, after so much effort to avert war - this is the final answer - the current Iraqi regime is doomed - and deserves to be.

Lawmakers in Baghdad Meet on Response to U.N. Resolution By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:08 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-UN.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A top lawmaker told an emergency session of Parliament Monday that the Iraqi leadership should reject a tough, new U.N. resolution governing weapons inspections.

``The committee advises ... the rejection of Security Council Resolution 1441 and to not agree to it,'' Salim al-Koubaisi, head of the foreign relations committee, told lawmakers in the rubber-stamp Parliament.

Few in the world consider that committee advice independent of Saddam.

I hope the Iraqi government reconsiders. Other responses, for example Iraq States Its Case by MOHAMMED ALDOURI http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/opinion/17ALDO.html have been more sensible. That passage says "you don't have to trust us - - you can check us." Now, people should be able to.

I hope the Iraqi government reconsiders.

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