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To: i-node who wrote (615977)	6/13/2011 6:42:10 PM
From: Les H	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1580820

You asked: Could you please cite a couple of relevant remarks from all the Republicans which reflect this thinking? I responded: Name one that's come out and said he would cut all spending and not just "non-defense discretionary". If you answered Tim Pawlenty, you would have been right. On the other hand, he was later forced to change his position and toe the party line. The real figure for military spending is over 1 trillion dollars and exceeds 7 percent of gross domestic product. The budgets for the Defense Department, the overseas military actions, DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA, DOE, VA, and other agencies should be included in the total. 7 percent of GDP approaches what was being spent at the height of the Vietnam War when there was a draft and the threat of a major superpower in the USSR. The costs for Iraq and Afghanistan are already accounted for in the supplemental budget for overseas deployments and will start to decline. The Pentagon budget should fall back to roughly 3 percent of GDP where it was before the unnecessary and costly invasion of Iraq.