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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 - 04:26pm Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9340 of 9340)
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.

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If the liberation of Iraq can be accomplished with only the threat of war, not war - that will be wonderful. There's still hope of that - and the Bush administration is plainly doing some careful negotiating.

It is worth noting that the people of Iraq and the people of France are different people - and Saddam is not - from the Iraqi point of view - a foreign invader.

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