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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 - 10:48am Mar 10, 2003 EST (# 9745 of 9749)
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.

Ivanov Says Russia Will Veto U.S.-Backed Resolution on Iraq By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/international/10WIRE-IRAQ.html

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Monday Russia would vote against the new draft U.N. resolution on Iraq, a move that would veto the U.S.-sponsored measure.

"Russia thinks that now there is no need for any new U.N. resolutions, and that is why Russia has openly declared that if the draft that has been submitted for consideration, and which contains unfulfillable ultimatum-type demands, will be put to vote, Russia will vote against this resolution," he said.

Ivanov did not use the word "veto" but a Russian foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that he meant exactly that.

Ivanov, speaking at a ceremony at a Moscow university, said U.N. weapons inspectors needed several more months to finish their work in Iraq, where they are looking for suspected weapons of mass destruction.

"Today when we have a real possibility to answer the outstanding questions and do so not within years, but within months. This way is real, reliable and it allows us to resolve the problem through political means and defuse the Iraqi crisis," he said.

I hope, now, that all the nations at the Security Council vote as they believe and feel they should.

If the US withdraws the resolution - a statement of principles by the UN Security Council might well be drafted - and voted on clearly.

This is a time of enormous hope - if people face their responsibilities, rather than turn away from them.

almarst2003 - 11:16am Mar 10, 2003 EST (# 9746 of 9749)

The defining moment of this century in my view started at the end of the last one - the 78 days bombing of Serbia WITHOUT UN authorization by NATO countries acting against THEIR OWN charter and fueled by unprecedented ant-Serbian DEHUMANIZATION compain unprecedented since WWII.

I think the humanity is on accelerating course of self-destruction.

ElBaradei's report confirmed the following:

"The alleged Iraqi attempt of procuring Niger's uranium in the late nineties was based on unauthentic documents supplied by American and British intelligence." - http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1143

(UPI) -- Some evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the Washington Post reported Saturday. The faked evidence was described as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in Niger.

The correspondence was deemed "not authentic" after careful scrutiny by U.N. and independent experts, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. Security Council.

The documents had been given to the U.N. inspectors by Britain and reviewed extensively by U.S. intelligence. The forgers had made relatively crude errors that eventually gave them away -- including names and titles that did not match up with the individuals who held office at the time the letters were purportedly written, the Post report said. - http://jewishworldreview.com/0303/fake_evidence.asp

"These documents — which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger — are in fact not authentic," ElBaradei told the United Nations on Friday. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/2020/GMA030310Iraq_weapons_evidence.html

The most recent strain emerged when U.N. nuclear inspectors concluded last week that U.S. and British claims about Iraq’s secret nuclear program were based on forged documents. - http://www.msnbc.com/news/882813.asp

UK nuclear evidence a fake - http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,910129,00.html

GISTERME, All the above is for your examination.

Feel free to disregard as a "communist's propaganda";)

almarst2003 - 11:19am Mar 10, 2003 EST (# 9747 of 9749)

Emergency Convergence March 15 to Stop the Countdown; Tens of Thousands to March on the White House Against the War Deadline The Politics of Deceit, Diplomacy, Oil and War - http://www.votenowar.org/

almarst2003 - 11:34am Mar 10, 2003 EST (# 9748 of 9749)

Markets threatened by 'new world disorder' http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,910206,00.html

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