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To: TimF who wrote (48184)	2/6/2008 3:29:44 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541326

>>A lot of people seem to think that military spending is a growing part of our budget and crowding out other spending, or that the main reason for our deficits over the years is increases in military spending. Neither of those ideas is accurate.<< Tim - My goodness. We've actually reached a point where I can agree with you, mostly. I still believe that a lot of defense spending is probably being hidden in other budgets, but you are correct that it isn't as big a problem, relatively, as it once was. I also think it's quite clear that NOT spending hundreds of billions of dollars on an ill conceived and poorly executed preemptive war would have meant that the total national debt incurred during the Bush administration would have increased by that much less, regardless of what other money was being spent elsewhere. - Allen