Clinton and the Military from a former CTRL subscriber http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/document-4.23.1999.3.html ---------- THE REAGAN INFORMATION INTERCHANGE www.reagan.com Newt Gingrich on America's Military Vulnerability On Dividing Our Military Budget into Defense and Policing America's Military Vulnerability Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested America would be well served if we now thought about our military budget as being two parts: the Defense Budget and the Policing Budget. The Defense Budget is for those expenditures to protect America, our economic interests overseas, and the integrity of our security interests everywhere. The Policing Budget is for those expenditures to keep peace around the world and to intervene in conflicts where we must act because no other national can or will do so. President Clinton has created a national security emergency, neglecting the overall Defense Budget while stretching our troops around the world. The evidence: * America is dangerously close to running out of Air Launched Cruise Missiles --House Armed Services Committee * More than one half of the B-1B's at Ellsworth Air Force Base cannot fly a mission because they lack critical replacement parts --House Armed Services Committee * America is diverting planes from their patrols over the "Iraqi No-Fly Zone" in order to meet the requirements of the mission in Kosovo --House Armed Services Committee * Less than a month into a "small" operation, President Clinton is already calling up 33,000 reservists to active duty --House Armed Services Committee * The U.S.S. Enterprise nuclear Aircraft Carrier set sail short 400 personnel --House Armed Services Committee * Today, there are 265,000 American troops stationed in 135 countries --House Armed Services Committee * There are no United States Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific Ocean --Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy. ---------- HotTopics Online Preprocessor Copyright 1996-1999 Waveshift, Inc. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jamie W. "visualize honest media" Jackson, truth addict "Strange it is that men should admit to the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being 'pushed to an extreme;' not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. Strange that they should imagine that they are not assuming infallibility when they acknowledge that there should be free discussion on all subjects which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because it is so certain, that is, because *they are certain* that it is certain. To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side." --John Stuart Mill, Chapter II, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, On Liberty (1859)
If you still think that voting Republican is the "right" thing to do, please get your head examined. v -------------------- Received: from ridge.spiritone.com (ridge.spiritone.com [205.139.108.2]) by sparrow.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00974 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jamie.SpiritOne.com (m6-245.spiritone.com [208.130.240.245]) by ridge.spiritone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21445; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002e01be8f8e$cb0b5c80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Jamie Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoomit Macon Cerne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Newt gets one right (pretty much) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:56:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 I strongly agree, at least in one essential, with Mr. Ex-Speaker on this one. Our ability to intelligently discuss military operations would be vastly improved by dividing our discussion into two realms, and using different language in the two cases may be the quickest way to accomplish this. I suggest we divide all military operations into those authorized by the Constitution and those not so authorized, and entitle the two categories "legal" and "illegal". Oh, wait... I guess I'd already done that. Huh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/document-4.23.1999.3.html ---------- THE REAGAN INFORMATION INTERCHANGE www.reagan.com=20 Newt Gingrich on America's Military Vulnerability On Dividing Our Military Budget into Defense and Policing America's Military Vulnerability Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested America would be well served if we now thought about our military budget as being two parts: the Defense Budget and the Policing Budget. The Defense Budget is for those expenditures to protect America, our economic interests overseas, and the integrity of our security interests everywhere. The Policing Budget is for those expenditures to keep peace around the world and to intervene in conflicts where we must act because no other national can or will do so. President Clinton has created a national security emergency, neglecting the overall Defense Budget while stretching our troops around the world. The evidence: * America is dangerously close to running out of Air Launched Cruise Missiles --House Armed Services Committee * More than one half of the B-1B's at Ellsworth Air Force Base cannot fly a mission because they lack critical replacement parts --House Armed Services Committee * America is diverting planes from their patrols over the "Iraqi No-Fly Zone" in order to meet the requirements of the mission in Kosovo --House Armed Services Committee * Less than a month into a "small" operation, President Clinton is already calling up 33,000 reservists to active duty --House Armed Services Committee * The U.S.S. Enterprise nuclear Aircraft Carrier set sail short 400 personnel --House Armed Services Committee * Today, there are 265,000 American troops stationed in 135 countries --House Armed Services Committee * There are no United States Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific Ocean --Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy. ---------- HotTopics Online Preprocessor Copyright 1996-1999 Waveshift, Inc. **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jamie W. "visualize honest media" Jackson, truth addict "Strange it is that men should admit to the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being 'pushed to an extreme;' not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. Strange that they should imagine that they are not assuming infallibility when they acknowledge that there should be free discussion on all subjects which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because it is so certain, that is, because *they are certain* that it is certain. To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side." --John Stuart Mill, Chapter II, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, On Liberty (1859) (I'm not anti-government, I'm anti-corrupt unconstitutional government.) </clinton>
