----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Defense Policy (was Bush's Aggressive Accounting)
> > Several countries joined the US in the war against Iraq. I never heard the > US say "we do not want your help, just stay home". (Detail: The Netherlands > deployed mobile radar installations and five naval vessels; total cost of > the operation: NLG 462 million). > Could I get a clarification on this? Was the value (acqusition cost) of the mobile radar installations and 5 navel vessels that were deployed NLG 462 million, or was the expense of deployment NGL 462 over the last four months? The former seems like it would be in the right ball park for those types of units. If it was the latter, it would seem to me that NGL of over 1 billion per year to deploy those units is a very high deployment expense. Dan M.
