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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jmhollen who wrote (568095)	4/23/2004 1:27:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) of 769670

Re: <everone knows> The financial burden on the USSR of attempting to counter MX/Peacekeeper and SDI is what broke their piggy bank and trashed their whole governmental structure. >>> LOL!!!!! >>> Really? And I thought the disasterous economic performance of the Soviet Empire throughout the 1960s and 1970s had something to do with their internal collapse! Silly me, guess there actually must not have been a huge gap in economic performance between the West and the East --- stretching back over DECADES! >>> (But if they were doing all that great during the fifties, the sixties, and the seventies... then how could a little extra defense spending cause them much bother, right? Especially since it was mostly R&D and (aside from Aegis) little or no actual deployment....) >>> You guys and your Hollywood fantasies.... so willing to totally ignore actual DECADES of economic data, all to embrace a 'happy-time' Hollywood fable.... >>> SDI research ("Brilliant Peebles", etc.) might have been one more straw on the camel's back --- but it was just one more straw, and the camel was already starved and broken down.

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