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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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almarst2003 - 11:01am Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9301 of 9309)

http://electroniciraq.net/

mazza9 - 11:44am Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9302 of 9309)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

gisterme:

It took 8 lchic's in a row plus a plethora of Roberts and one alarmist to respond to your cogent missive. Well done my friend.

President Bush was just on the news. He was speaking about a variety of topics. The accelerated BMD wasn't mentioned but as long as the Al Shamoud and North Korth Koreans continue their missile programs defense is a jusdicious path to take.

almarst2003 - 12:05pm Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9303 of 9309)

mazza9 - 11:44am Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9302 of 9302)

I was quite ready to dissmiss your statement implying the great danger to US territory from 180mi Iraqi missies when recalled that from the outer space distance of your observation those are quite equal;)

The Evil is Evil ... is Evil from any distance. With God (on our $ side) and bombs there is nothing to stop the victory of the GOOD;)

rshow55 - 12:07pm Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9304 of 9309)
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.

A hyper-expensive path to take - for which a few arguments can be made - if it worked. Interdiction, hard as it is - or enforcement of internatioan law - hard too - are both more workable than our MD programs - given the faintest competence from the missile builders.

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Psychwarfare, Casablanca - - - and terror # 380 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?8@@.ee7a163/413

Yesterday evening, the NYT forums shut down for "scheduled maintenance" - shortly afterward called "urgent maintenance" - and when I rechecked this morning, eight postings had been removed.

9299 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@28.FhC5aji14PL.88149@.f28e622/10833">rshow55 2/26/03 9:05am</a>

On reposting a piece of what had been deleted on the NYT MD forum- I found that http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md310 was blocked so that clicking the reference to it didn't work through the NYT thread - but did, a while ago, work here. (perhaps this link was blocked because of 312 and 315 by "becq" - who I believe was Bill Clinton )

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md328 was also blocked in the same way - used to work here - but does no longer.

These references - from Sept 27 and 28, 2000, can still be accessed from http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm as of now.

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The deletions say a good deal about the probability that gisterme is, indeed, PTUS.

almarst2003 - 01:17pm Feb 26, 2003 EST (# 9305 of 9309)

STARTLING ACCUSATION FROM A GULF WAR VET GROUP - http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=936

FEBRUARY 25. The American Gulf War Veterans Association, led by Joyce Riley, has issued a press release that accuses US forces of setting huge oil fires in Kuwait at the end of Gulf War One.

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