BTW this is also from the CIA fact book. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:04 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: Vacation! Which is 3.2% of our GDP. Even Yemen spends more than that, when done by percentage. Do you know anything about security or risk management? Considering the value of what we have to loose, vs. the chance something is going to happen (very likely) I say we're not spending enough. If you want I can run upstairs and grab the text books with the equations. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:25 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: Vacation! Not only does it create jobs for the CIA. It creates a rally around the flag mentality which helps for public opinion polls and re-elections (thank you huddled masses). Plus munitions, food and other military supplies have expiration dates. Got use it or lose it. War uses the supplies and justifies stocking up with new ones. The US has the largest defense (offense, terror, etc..) budget in the world. In fact the US spends more on defense then #2 - #10 on the list combined; including the UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, Korea etc.. (courtesy of the CIA World Factbook) -----Original Message----- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:59 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: Vacation! I'd venture to say that I think "the war on terrorism" is such an ambitious concept as to be useless unless it's merely a smokescreen of propaganda to facilitate the US committing acts of terrorism against others. Osama was after all CIA trained. Or so said the reports I read. For that matter, the US put the Talaban in power in the 80's because we didn't like the people who were in power there at the time. Which is part of the problem with the whole foreign policy issue. It's like assassination -- what happens when someone is assassinated in many (if not most) cases is that someone else merely takes that person's place. My understanding is that the Talaban thing is the same sort of story -- you just replace one evil for another. But it creates jobs for people at the CIA, so I suppose it can't be all bad. Isaac Original Message ----------------------- Well, right now we are supposed to be combating a guerilla threat in Iraq, finishing up a job in Afghanistan, and carrying out a vigilant campaign against the menance of International Terrorism. Is the war over? Because I want to know every single mfing terrorist on earth has been captured or killed before anyone who is supposed to be spearheading these efforts takes a break or a monthlong vacation. M -----Original Message----- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:24 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Vacation! Was it George Bush Sr. or Clinton who's first act at the beginning of the Gulf War was to go on a yacht trip? ... I personally don't believe the presidents actions have much at all in consequence to the troops deployed in any really meaningful way... Unless he's deciding to order their sudden withdrawl. I remember someone saying the explanation of the afforementioned yacht trip was to appear unthreatened by the opponent. Apparently it's supposed to be intimidating to an enemy when you pretend to ignore them. Isaac Original Message ----------------------- http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=79159&SecID=2 Um... Is it just me, or does this seem weird? Should a President to take a month off while troops are deployed and fighting in another country? M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
