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To: tejek who wrote (219893)	2/20/2005 1:36:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574732

Ted, According to their numbers, defense in 2004 was $454 billion. That means when you add in the $80 billion for Iraq that for whatever reason, was kept outside of the Defense budget that defense figure increases to a grand total of $534 billion. I suspect the CBO numbers include Iraq, since Iraq doesn't appear anywhere else in the CBO's numbers. (If it didn't, then the true deficit would be greater than $412B, a fact that the mainstream press would have instantly noticed.) That would mean the CBO's number of $454B isn't too far off from my number of $474B. Whatever the exact number, however, its too much. In fact, its a sin how much we spend on defense. How much should we spend on defense? Tenchusatsu