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To: epicure who wrote (2166)	4/6/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Looks like my earlier estimates were low. BUDGET BUSTER: COST OF U.S. MILITARY OPERATION IN KOSOVO ESTIMATED TO TOP $3 BILLION The cost of the U.S. air campaign against Yugoslavia already has topped the $400 million mark, according to a soon-to-be-published report, and the price tag quickly could balloon to between $2 billion and $4 billion if the airstrikes proceed for even a few weeks longer. As the Clinton administration expands the scope of the mission, the cost of the operation now threatens to set off budgetary and political explosions on Capitol Hill, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report in a Tuesday dispatch from Washington. "If the bill for the Kosovo operation is handled through regular budgetary channels, it could easily burst the once-inviolate budget caps that limit spending by broad categories, cut into military modernization funds, and possibly starve domestic programs," reports the paper's Paul Richter and Art Pine. The Navy's sea-launched Tomahawks carry a price tag of about $1 million apiece; Air Force missiles, $2 million each. More than 220 cruise missiles have already been fired. The loss of the F-117A Stealth fighter over Yugoslavia alone is estimated to have cost $70 million.

To: epicure who wrote (2166)	4/7/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 17770

<< I don't want any limits on my nations rights which are imposed from OUTSIDE. >> Duh! That is why we maintain military forces. You seem to be a little confused on this issue. You seem more than willing to turn our rights over to the bungling, disorganized, political United Nations. You can't have it both ways! <g> << Therefore I cannot impose them on other nations. >> That's like saying that we don't want to arrest criminals from our streets because they will do the same thing to us. Go back to sleep! <g>