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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 - 08:38pm Jan 26, 2003 EST (# 8172 of 8182)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

" ... as the King came by the little boy looked and, horrified, said,. "Look at the King! Look at the the King! Look at the King, the King, the King! ... as naked as the day that he was born. "

So who are the 'rascals' the equivalent of the two tailors in the story Emperors new clothes who take the money .... to weave invisible suits of gold for 'Liberty' to parade in?

How is that $350bn cut up - who gets a cut?

lchic - 08:39pm Jan 26, 2003 EST (# 8173 of 8182)
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Mulgabe - http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,882630,00.html

lchic - 08:43pm Jan 26, 2003 EST (# 8174 of 8182)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

And so it came to pass that George and ALL his monikers settled down together, with beer and popcorn -- each waving his very own US-flag, to make an evening of 'Superbowl' the ultimate challenge in US manhood!?

gisterme - 12:13am Jan 27, 2003 EST (# 8175 of 8182)

limpseed - 05:47pm Jan 26, 2003 EST (# 8134...)

"...Rshow - hats off to you buddy. Yes no doubt gisterme could be POTUS. whoa...."

Robert shouldn't be worried about gisterme being GWB. What should really frighten him is that I might be Santa Clause!

gisterme - 12:32am Jan 27, 2003 EST (# 8176 of 8182)

limpseed - (or bbuck or johnson or whomever you may be) :-) 08:27pm Jan 26, 2003 EST (# 8171...)

"...Can the Raiders come back?..."

Way to late for that! So much for the "Raider nation". How 'bout them Bucks???!!

What I had hoped to see at the end of the game while John Gruden was receiving all the adulation was a close-up of Raiders owner Al Davis enjoying it all as he looked on. I was so disappointed! I think I'll have the FBI investigate the network for depriving the American people of that small satisfaction... :-) Such deprival seemed entirely un-American to me!

That would have been the real cherry on top!

lchic - 01:30am Jan 27, 2003 EST (# 8177 of 8182)
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Afghan women girls

http://www.oneworld.net/themes/country/country_4_1.shtml http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/01/afghan0116.htm http://www.feminist.org/afghan/intro.asp

lchic - 01:37am Jan 27, 2003 EST (# 8178 of 8182)
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Iraq women girls

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide/10wayswomen.shtm Women Must Be Part of Post-Saddam Iraq http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1088/context/archive

International Women's Day 8 March 2003

The Feminist Peace Network is pleased to announce that plans are underway for the 2nd Annual International Women's Day Global Peace vigil to be held on International Women's Day http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/iwd.htm

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