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To: unclewest who wrote (16406)	11/16/2003 7:38:11 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

homework Between 2001 (the year of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan) and 2003 (the year of the war in Iraq), the US armed forces (army, marines, navy, air force) increased from 1,385,000 to 1,414,000, or 2%. census.gov census.gov This puny increase was done in the face of hugely increased burdens on our armed forces, and represents a tiny percentage of the allegedly disastrous cuts during the Clinton years. By the way, had the Bush administration used the $100 billion annual tax cuts they have scheduled for the next decade to increase the size of the armed forces, they could have completely reversed Clinton's cuts. I am sure the country would have gladly agreed to that after 9/11. But Bush chose NOT to do that, and instead distributed tax cuts to the populace.