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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 8 May 2001 08:35:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > The people who least want to see a reduction in the military are those who
> > make the weapons. Take a look how much the companies who will work on Son of
> > Star Wars gave Dubya for his election.
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> Ugh! Don't even start me on that ridiculous cash cow! I foresee, shortly
> after the implementation of this fine umbrella, someone boating up the
> Potomac with a suitcase bomb or a big tank full of anthrax.
You are missing the point! It has nothing to do with defence. It has two
objectives:
1. Start a "new" arms race and bankrupt China.
2. Move large amounts of money from US taxpayers to US shareholders.
Everything else is salesman’s banter.
Scott A
> I think a real distinction can be drawn, however, between maintenance and
> upgrading of existing technologies and the creation of a system to deal with
> a created and fictitious need.
> In response to the criticism that the technology for Star Wars Jr. doesn't
> exist yet and/or doesn't work, George Will argued on Sunday that no one
> knows if ICBM's worked, but we built them anyway. Sounds like airtight
> reasoning to me! I'll have to get to work on patenting my perpetual motion
> machine.
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> Dave!
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| (...) Na, Dave! has it right, all it is going to do is save the attacking country ~ 10 billion dollars or so, on ICBM research as well as Special Weapons (Gas/Bugs/Nukes). It's a farce. An expensive farce, that I don't think will bankrupt China, (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Ugh! Don't even start me on that ridiculous cash cow! I foresee, shortly after the implementation of this fine umbrella, someone boating up the Potomac with a suitcase bomb or a big tank full of anthrax. I think a real distinction can be (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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