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To: JohnM who wrote (73676)	2/13/2003 8:28:34 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

JohnM On the engineer thing - I am having some fun. Your not an engineer so you wouldn't understand :-) All you liberal arts guys made fun of us in University. But us Nerds have done pretty well during the computer age. The anti-missile thing is not technically as hard as you and the 'political' scientists think. For example you would agree that we know how to shoot down planes - right. But creating a system that could shoot down all planes - when an enemy is willing to send - say 10,000 - that would be hard. Probably close to impossible from a statistical sense. Thats the issue with 'Star Wars'. But to say a system could not be developed to stop an attack on North America or Japan from a limited foe like North Korea is silly. By building such a system they are rendered impotent and can be ignored. Not building one guarantees we have to appease them or go to war with them. But how about spending enough money to equip firefighters with the proper gas masks Could not agree more! After he stopped carrying a rifle in the Army - my dad ran the fire department and crash and rescue squads at various Air Force Bases when I was a kid. Forget poison gas - they had trouble getting good equipment to keep out toxic stuff from normal fires. John