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To: steve harris who wrote (159844)	2/2/2003 5:18:30 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) of 1578269

Here is list of all military budgets. armscontrolcenter.org You can see that Clinton hardly touched military spending. He raised military salaries dramatically which was, as I said, due to his excellent boom economy where too many soldiers were leaving for the private sector and better paying jobs. That became a major national security issue. Other than that we were in no imminent danger from any military attacks, just terrorism. Other savings (cuts) came from military base closings which began during Bush Sr's years and continued into the Clinton years. These were mainly cuts on Cold War bases which just had no realistic use anymore except to prop up econmomies around them. Obviously if Clinton were still president, after 9-11 he would have raised the military budget and gone after Afghanistan and other terror cell hide-outs. Any president would. But raise it as much as Bush? Not likely. Bush has some big pork items in there I'd like to see taken out. Especially the Crusader and SDI deployment which is worth 18 billion. We just cannot afford weapons systems which aren't vitally useful.

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