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To: tejek who wrote (129973)	12/20/2000 5:33:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1570368

Where are we short? I don't recall us telling Bosnia we were over budget, or pulling our troops out early in the Iraqi war because we ran out of $$$ to the fill the tanks with gas. We never flat out ran out of money, but we have people leaving the service because of long deployments. Our readiness has declined. If something like Iraq came up again we would still be powerful enough to win but we would have less force to deeply which would likely mean that we would win but take longer to win and suffer more casualties. Most people don't know this but we don't have a deployable Persian Gulf size force available any more. We spend billions on defense while in peacetime. Its enough in my estimate. We don't adequately house and feed our own people but we have enough $$$ to play Captain Amerika to the world. How much government should be involved in subsidizing housing or what level of housing is adequate is a whole separate issue. As far as playing "Captain Amerika" to the world that something Clinton started to do while at the same time slashing defense spending. If we are going to continue to be this involved then we will have to have larger defense budgets. Tim

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