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

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (215933)	1/8/2002 10:15:14 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, I know about the defense business, and it is about two things creating enemies and getting money to fight them. Unfortunately, for most Americans, me not withstanding, they know very little about the real threat and the enemies and are bs'd into believing we need more and more for defense. when nothing is further from the truth. The only real viable threat we have now is China, and our submarine fleet alone could whip them in a heartbeat. So there is no threat except the kid in Tampa, and the likes of him. And the beat goes on and we try the stir up an opponent. We spend 340 billion on defense and 200 is more than enough. And as 9/11 proved we are spending it for the wrong things.