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To: TimF who wrote (139497)	10/2/2001 11:48:30 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580436

2 - The spending helped assure that the Soviet Union would crumble rather then pull out of it. Tim, that's not true. The Soviet Union went down because the cost of controlling its empire was shortchanging the home front too severely. Its industry was crumbing. If we had done nada, it still would have gone down. 3 - The spending helped us to be prepared incase they got violent as they crumbled. We spent billions and got nothing. If Russia went nuclear at the end, Star Wars could have done nothing to stop it because there was no Star Wars in place. We spent billions of dollars and made Reagan's CA friends even more wealthy. I mean where do you think a lot of the Star Wars money was spent....in CA's defense industries. He was helping his homies. It was a terrible waste of money....one of the worst examples of pork. ted