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To: jttmab who wrote (134865)	5/29/2004 3:33:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Jtt, but if you count the 150,000 in Iraq, enforcing UN resolutions, the numbers swell. <At present, U.S. troops and civilian police account for 464 of the 42,597 UN peacekeepers worldwide... Impressive: 1%> Then there are those on USS Kitty Hawk, sailing around the water between Taiwan and China, keeping the peace. kittyhawk.navy.mil Plus a lot more besides. And so there should be. I'm paying a lot of taxes to King George III [without representation I might add] and I expect some services. Hubble, the legal system, and peace-enforcing forces are just a few of the good works they are doing with my taxes [turning a blind eye to all the boondoggles for now]. Mqurice

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