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To: bentway who wrote (540054)	1/1/2010 3:36:28 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574848

Police: Suicide bombing kills 75 in NW Pakistan Jan 1 02:41 PM US/Eastern By RIAZ KHAN and ASIF SHAHZAD Associated Press Writers PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle in a crowd of people watching a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 75 people in the deadliest attack in the country in more than two months. The attack in Lakki Marwat city appeared to be retaliation against residents who formed militias to drive militants out of the area, police said. The blast underscores the difficulty Pakistan has had in stopping militants whose reach extends far beyond Pakistan's lawless tribal belt and who appear increasingly willing to strike civilians as well as security forces. damn that Obama

To: bentway who wrote (540054)	1/4/2010 5:11:26 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574848

The actual military budget is hidden all over the place. Not as much as it is in places like China or North Korea. With just the VISIBLE part of it we spend as much as the rest of the world combined. And the invisible part is a bigger factor elsewhere. Ranging from total command and control to grab for the military whatever they want without bothering with taxes and budgets, to businesses owned by the PLA, to drafts that take resources (people) without fully paying for them (so the budgetary cost is much lower than the real cost).