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To: Mr. Forthright who wrote (50010)	10/7/2002 2:39:13 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

There once was a president who said: "Beware the military-industrial complex." This has become the military-industrial empire. Yes, the US is a great democracy where about 25% of the voting population elected a president only to have him thrown out by that other great institution of democracy the Supreme Court. Not that I think that Gore would do things differently had he been in office. His support was very similar to Bush's. The Canadians and Europeans I have met are at best tepid about the great American democracy especially since a prerequisite for a great democracy is voter participation. I really doubt that Europeans dislike US military dominance. They can see the downside of an excessive military budget, something that US voters have not. Although one can hope. Take 10% of the military budgets of the world and 10% of the US and European farm supports and you can increase the aid to underdeveloped countries many times. Properly used these monies could easily(in our life time) solve their poverty problems in ways which would make them self-supporting(also in the USA). This would put a damper on many problems, unfortunately religious fundamentalism would only be reduced, not eliminated by such a course of action.