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To: unclewest who wrote (910)	5/11/2003 9:18:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 794545

John, Did you think that way as the demos cut the end strength of the Navy, Army, and USAF by 35-39% over 8 years? Those agencies are part of the government too. surely that was a savings by cutting government. I hope you are not suggesting there is no fat elsewhere in the vast bureaucracy that can and should be trimmed. uw Well, you are clever enough to change the subject. I was typing about the Reps desire to cut the size of government because they view government as the problem rather than the solution. And, of course, you decided to type about the military. You don't want to exchange views, Mike, you just wish to see if you can find some small way to one up in this conversation. Well, let's walk a bit of a way down the path. Yes, I was delighted to hear you say the military had been cut in the 90s. I don't recall seeing those numbers anywhere else and don't even know if they are true. But it would be nice had they been true. Because the Cold War ended, Mike. Or didn't you get the notice. And with the end of that little 50 year affair, the military buildup which was put into place to deal with it should have been reduced. I don't recall the reductions amounting to nearly as much as you seem to think. We didn't know about 9-11 through the 90s. Or, at least, most of us didn't. Perhaps some of you thought you did. Now, after 9-11, does it look as if it was a good thing to cut whatever amount they did. Absolutely. I don't, at the moment, see any major state actors with large armies about to be a problem. Unless the Bush folk decide it would be fun to alienate a few more sizeable countries the better to get them to join together. Some where I read recently the US military budget was more than the next fifteen countries combined. Sounds like another definition of obscene to me.