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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 - 05:04am Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1385 of 1422)
"They just started demolishing with the people inside" Jenin

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lchic - 05:15am Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1386 of 1422)
"They just started demolishing with the people inside" Jenin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans believe the United States should halt or reduce economic and military aid to Israel http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20020413/ts_nm/mideast_usa_poll_dc_1

lchic - 06:21am Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1387 of 1422)
"They just started demolishing with the people inside" Jenin

A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets pounded in, say there are hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust, under a field of debris, criss-crossed with tank and bulldozer treadmarks. ... (more)

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413

lchic - 11:13am Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1388 of 1422)
"They just started demolishing with the people inside" Jenin

Taking care of Human Rights : Cartoon
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almarst-2001 - 01:26pm Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1389 of 1422)

"Mr Powell is playing games"

The Super-Hyper-Hip-Hip-Power ie playing games. The Big-Board Chess Games. And 99.9999% of us are just dispencible pawns.

welcome to the REALPOLITIC.

almarst-2001 - 01:43pm Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1390 of 1422)

Palestinian Deaths Aren't Headline Material at New York Times - http://www.fair.org/activism/nyt-israel-headlines.html

lchic - 02:05pm Apr 16, 2002 EST (#1391 of 1422)
"They just started demolishing with the people inside" Jenin

I Noticed that the deaths in Palestine are heading/top-of-the-news everywhere else - not hear. America is still in denial.

America