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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (1342)7/3/2002 7:22:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
MILITARY DECEITS

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your expansive response to the charges of malfeasance and incompetence being hurled against King George. Almost all of the dirt is sticking.

There was one matter that I take exception to in your well-considered discussion.

To wit: " big part of fed deficit is for military response to AlQaeda... "

I absolutely disagree with this characterization. The military response to al Qaeda inclusive of operations in Afghanistan, Guantanemo, Diego Garcia, Yemen and a few other small force deployments has cost at most $20 Billion*** to date from the start of theatre operations last September. As I'm sure you are aware, the War Rackets Dept. budget for FY2002 was about $340 Billion, next year, FY 2003, the budget is going to be $380 Billion. This is an obscene number and it is in no way a reflection of the actual costs involved in the U.S. "military response to al Qaeda".

The Federal budget deficit is projected to be on the order of $150 Billion in FY 2003. It would be incorrect, IMO, to characterize our military response to al Qaeda as a "big part" of the amazing money grab that the brasshats have perpetrated for their pet projects and profits for their cronies in the war profiteering sector.

Salaams, Ray

***Accurate figures are of course a matter of suppressed information withheld from the American people by "secret" classification systems that Bush and the brasshats are so very fond of.
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