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To: blue red who wrote (126908)	3/22/2004 8:38:54 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

I specifically referred to bringing it down to manageable levels. I am not counting on the elimination of terrorism, merely making it more containable by available methods of policing and intelligence. Terrorism is not monocausal, or all similarly situated persons would become terrorists. In fact, given the terrorist aspiration to erect his own tyranny, it is ludicrous to make that the main issue. I am, be clear, in favor of democratization, which is why I support the Administration, although I want to be careful to conserve life in the process. But these are people who resist democracy, not merely who resent tyranny. We do not control their world enough, nor can we count on dissuading them enough, to deal with "root causes". Our mission is to secure ourselves and our allies from their depredations. The best way to do that is too destroy their operational capabilities, as much as possible, and to either capture or kill them.

To: blue red who wrote (126908)	3/22/2004 8:41:53 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

FBI Budget Squeezed After 9/11 __________ Request for New Counterterror Funds Cut by Two-Thirds By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 22, 2004 washingtonpost.com In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows. The document, dated Oct. 12, 2001, shows that the FBI requested $1.5 billion in additional funds to enhance its counterterrorism efforts with the creation of 2,024 positions. But the White House Office of Management and Budget cut that request to $531 million. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, working within the White House limits, cut the FBI's request for items such as computer networking and foreign language intercepts by half, cut a cyber-security request by three quarters and eliminated entirely a request for "collaborative capabilities." <more in article>