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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 - 05:50pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8046 of 8072)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

'Tigress of the Tigress'

If James Bond hadn't been so busy in Korea these past months .... rather had he been working with a nation of his choice ... and had his task been to OUST Saddam --- how might OO7 have approached this delicate matter?

Perhaps enlisting a 'Tigress of the Tigress' to seduce the guy to oblivion, in accordance with one of supposed past times.

lchic - 06:14pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8047 of 8072)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

WAR - good for business?

US look into Kolchuhas (Ukraine), pontoon bridge sales to Iraq, 10.01.2003

Boucher declined to comment on a question about possible sales of as many as 400 of Global Positioning Systems jammers to Iraq by a Russian firm.

http://www.pravda.com.ua/en/archive/2002/october/11/1.shtml

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Iraq - Constitutional-History background (1995) http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/iz__indx.html

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Khatami: The main features of democracy - which should be clearly distinguished from its various manifestations - include people's right to determine their destinies; the emanation of authority, particularly political authority, from the the free will and choice of the people and its Submission to their continued scrutiny; and the institutionalization of such accountability.

Translation:

Mr President, talking like a second hand car salesman recounts the main features of this contraption called democracy. These main features he says should be distinguished from other manifestations.

Other unimportant aspects that do not matter any way. They are just fancy gadgets and luxurious features like

freedom of the press, freedom to form political parties, freedom to choose your religion, freedom to decide what you want to wear when you get out of the house in the morning. http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/September/Khatami/

rshow55 - 06:32pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8048 of 8072)
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.

gisterme:

Oh, by the way, Robert, for the umpteenth time, I have nothing to do with the Bush administration or the US government other than being a tax payer and a voter.

If one searched gisterme _ the 12 search pages available yesterday - and the 35 additional search pages from March 1 - that would be a dubious claim. Again and again, gisterme claims special knowledge that would only be available to a Bush administration insider.

And not infrequently, gisterme pulls rank.

I've been under then impression, since the middle of 2001, that gisterme has had a lot of rank - or close connections to rank in the Bush administration. And looking at the record, that seems the only reasonable conclusion.

If I'm right - and some people on the Security Counsel have been reading this thread - the matter could be checked . If I'm not - well, I've tried to be productive. If you click "rshow55' and look - there are a lot of links - and if you click the Guardian links, and click my moniker there - there is more information.

Could I be wrong? Sure. But connecting the dots - it still seems likely to me that gisterme is a team consisting of GWB - Rice - and maybe others - with GWB predominating. When one lives, one plays the odds - and I've been honored by the attention gisterme has given to this thread.

If gisterme is GWB - people know it. If people check what gisterme thinks - and check who gisterme is - results might be useful - for the whole world.

As for me "buying in to Al Queda propaganda" -- that's absurd.

If leaders of nation states wanted things on this thread checked to closure - it would happen - and a lot would clarify. Could I be wrong about a lot of things? Sure. But getting some things straight would be a very, very good use of moderate resources.

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