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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 - 09:12am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9802 of 9816)
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Guardian Talk International

Bush and Blair back down again over the second resolution - is the UN going to win this?

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s803292.htm

The United Nations was set up to prevent countries settling their differences by 'force or the threat of force'. It looks as if it may actually be succeeding in doing just that........

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a90e2f2/0

lchic - 09:17am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9803 of 9816)
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post 62 above uses term

a 'Coalition of the Billing'

lchic - 09:21am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9804 of 9816)
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Iran - nuclear expansion

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993481

almarst2003 - 10:53am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9805 of 9816)

gisterme - 02:39am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9791 of 9804) - "What ROTTEN REGIMES is the US currently propping up?"

I would start with the Oil Kindoms, Mubarak, Hussein of Jordan, Musharaf of Pakistan.

Assuming I did not miss too many, its still quite a lot after the end of the Cold War.

almarst2003 - 10:58am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9806 of 9816)

Is Weapons Case Against Iraq Disintegrating? - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/2020/GMA030310Iraq_weapons_evidence.html

rshow55 - 11:00am Mar 11, 2003 EST (# 9807 of 9816)
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.

Poll: Britons See Bush as Bigger Threat Than Saddam By REUTERS Filed at 9:32 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-britain-poll.html

LONDON (Reuters) - The British public sees President Bush as a greater threat to world peace than Iraq's Saddam Hussein, a poll published on Tuesday showed.

It also believes that as long as United Nations weapons inspectors can do a useful job in Iraq, it would be wrong for the United States and Britain to attack. However, Britons say something has to be done about Saddam and suspect he is determined to hide his weapons of mass destruction from U.N. inspectors.

The poll, commissioned by Channel 4 Television, asked 1,000 people whether they believed Bush was a greater threat to world peace than Saddam. Forty-five percent agreed while 38 percent disagreed.

Two-thirds of those polled said it would be wrong to attack Iraq while inspectors felt they still had a useful job to do.

However, 64 percent of respondents said they agreed with Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that ``if the international community fails to act firmly now against Iraq, then the world will become a more dangerous place in years to come.'' Only 24 percent disagreed.

People want a UN that actually works. As gisterme points out - as of now - for operational purposes - we don't have it.

gisterme's 9789 may be partly right that now the UN doesn't "produce much bang for the buck" - though I'd argue the other way. But it is clear that people want the UN to work - and aren't prepared to simply defer to the US - especially the US under Bush's leadership.

I'm glad that gisterme read my 9773 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.6z7gawXK5K2.1294333@.f28e622/11315

If people get clear about what they actually want - after they've thought about what is possible - a lot might sort out well.

We're going to have to get clearer about what we can and ought to agree on - and what we can't possibly agree on, and shouldn't want to.

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