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To: Elsewhere who wrote (70668)	1/31/2003 3:21:51 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The President expressed his great appreciation for the significant and uninterrupted German contribution to the common defense. Some would consider that nostalgia (not me... well, not entirely anyway). Germany's direct support for 1993 is estimated at around $250 million, with foregone revenues estimated at between $1.4 billion to $1.9 billion. The way the relationship has deteriorated - would it be surprising if those bases were one day moved? The Baltic's, Poland and a number of others have been lobbying for bases...

To: Elsewhere who wrote (70668)	1/31/2003 3:34:10 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Pretty cheap price for the benefits including ending the cold war, re-unification of east and west Germany, the Marshall Plan, and this does not include the benefits that the German economy got from hosting all those foreign troops, who often lived in the local economies, bought food drink and goods in the local economy, and the jobs that German citizens got from their work with the American forces. Let's tell the whole picture, not just one side of the story! bill@germanygotthebetterofthedeal.com PS. I was stationed in Mannheim from 1969 to 1972.