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To: koan who wrote (7833)	4/29/2009 2:00:01 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 86356

Last I looked a government controlled by the people is a democracy. You just do not like this government, so you engage in name calling using words like facism. It ain't controlled by the people if the White House dictates how the census determines congressional districts. That's a bit scary and you'd be shrieking to the heavens had the Bush administration attempted such a stunt and made the census bureau answerable to the white house COS. Btw.. learn how to spell Fascism, ok? "the three trillion dollars was given by no less a person than Stiglitz winner of the nobel prize in economics. what you are not counting in are the extra billions of dollars to rebuild our military and take care of our injured veterans!! Yeah.. and Al Gore is a Nobel Prize winner too.. Doesn't mean he's not a political hack. Stiglitz tries to insert all kinds of unrealized costs from the deaths of US service members but he OMITS the FACT that EACH YEAR up to 1,000 military service members die from NON-COMBAT related injuries (training accidents.. etc). In fact, this was the case during the Clinton Administration between 1993-1996 that more soldiers died during those years than died in Iraq between 2003 and 2007: The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That's 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who's counting? nysun.com The point being, there's an intrinsic ANNUAL COST to maintaining a standing military, whether in peacetime, or wartime, REGARDLESS of who's in office. And it's BS to try and include those costs without comparing them to peacetime costs. Hawk