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To: zonkie who wrote (308943)	11/3/2006 5:22:02 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575421

Zonkie, > You talk as if cutting our defense spending after the cold war was over was a bad thing. I think it was the right thing to do. On the contrary, I thought it made sense at the time. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it was the "right thing to do," though. Tenchusatsu

To: zonkie who wrote (308943)	11/3/2006 8:38:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575421

"You talk as if cutting our defense spending after the cold war was over was a bad thing. I think it was the right thing to do. Read these excerpts from a state of the union speech and tell me that Clinton shouldn't have cut military spending. Sometimes there are better things to spend our money on that building more weapons. Are there any of these programs which we should have spent more money on at the time?" Clinton was scared off from cutting military spending as much as he should have. He was warned that SO MUCH of our economy was dependent on defense spending that the economy would COLLAPSE if he had cut defense spending as much as was justified by the implosion of the Soviet Union. Now the fear mongers are trying to flog terrorists as threatening to prop up defense spending, but the answer shouldn't be military. The military hammer doesn't work on the terrorist screw..