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To: tejek who wrote (174686)	8/28/2003 2:24:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577095

Ted I'm making a lot of sense, you just seem to have a problem understanding it. You are confusing different things and lumping them all together. The amount spent to fight terrorism is not the same thing as the budget authority for anti-terrorism programs. They differ in that - 1 - Not all money used to fight terrorism comes from the budget allocation of specific anti-terrorism program. Regular funds allocated to the Defense department, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, The Homeland Security dept ect. all go in to the fight against terrorism. 2 - The amount spent on government programs changes all the time, not just with each new government budget. 3 - Even over a whole year the amount spent on a government program does not precisely equal the budget of that program. Money might be left unspent (although the system has built in incentives to spent it) and other money that was committed under contracts in one year under one budget actually gets spent in a later year. Getting back to the original point the amount spent on anti-terrorism (again even if you don't count Iraq war spending as anti-terrorism spending) in 1st half 03 is more then that spent on anti-terrorism in 2nd half 02, which was more then what was spent in 1st half 02. Also 2nd half 03 spending will be more then first half 03, and then in 2004 the US will almost certainly spend even more fighting terrorism. That's why I say the amount spent to fight terrorism is continuing to go up, and since it is going up it doesn't make sense to say funds are being diverted away from the effort against terrorism. Tim