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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (175854)	8/29/2001 11:58:58 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Rich, you asked, "Please give me a set of facts which destroy any premise I have put forward" In your first post to me: "Please do, Reagan had nothing* to with the demise of the Soviets."* In a later post to me: You are correct without Reagan forcing the Soviets to blow a few more bucks on defense the Soviet Union would have crumbled in 1991 instead of 1989. Your acknowledgement in the second post is at odds with your premise in the first post. Then you said; Clinton didn't slash military spending it has remained somewhat level for the last nine years in spite of the fact that we still can't find an enemy. Which is plainly incorrect as seen here; Center for Defense Information 1500 Massachusetts Ave., NW· Washington, DC 20005·(202) 862-0700·Fax: (202) 862-0708 U.S. Military Spending, 1945-1996 Annual Military Spending (Billions of 1996 Dollars in Outlays) cdi.org Now, I said; Okay, so you agree the position that Reagan "did nothing" is a lie and indefensible.(See your own words) Finally, I never called you a liar. I called your first premise a lie. Only if your repeat it as fact are you a liar as well. Thereby making the guy who said this: And by the way *k you and don't ever call me liar again, dimwit a name calling A-hole who does'nt know what the hell he's talking about. Correction: You were right about one thing. The Defense Department under Reagan was a bottomless pit where Mega-billions were pissed away. So is the D.O.E. today.