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To: unclewest who wrote (955)	5/12/2003 7:50:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794550

Mike, I know you have a veritable gold mine of such statistics which will show all sorts of dire things done to the defense department budget in the 90s. More than enough to keep the anger well stoked up. But I have absolutely no way to check those out. I've seen numbers which suggest it went up slightly, it went sideways, and it went down slightly. As well as those that said it went down dramatically, such as yours. All of the ones I've seen are completely political. They are presented to make a political point. Unlike the numbers of the increasing deficit.

To: unclewest who wrote (955)	5/12/2003 8:19:22 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794550

But, uw, isn't it true that the army that did so well in Afghanistan and Iraq is largely the army built under Clinton? Perhaps cutting the fat and emphasizing technology and training, the hallmarks of the Clinton defense management, was exactly what the army needed. Your criticism of the Clinton era management of the defense department is astounding. The army that Clinton inherited needed half a million men and one month of relentless preliminary bombing by more than a thousand aircraft to liberate tiny Kuwait in 1991. The army that Clinton delivered to Bush needed 150 thousand men and no preliminary bombing to liberate the whole of Iraq. And a tiny fraction of those men to liberate Afghanistan. Person for person and weapon for weapon, the army that Clinton built during his presidency is many times more effective than the army he inherited from Bush and Reagan. Raw numbers mean absolutely nothing. You should know that with all your SF experience. Kyros