[DoughtyOne]

Partner, it was a Clinton legacy. Bush has done nothing to change it. It is fast becoming a Bush legacy. Russia and China are an item. It's way past time to wake up. These two nations know that we are at the lowest level of preparedness we've been at in fifty years. Sooner or later it's going to dawn on them that we're sitting wide open. Evidently that's what it's going to take for our leadership to do the same thing.

[El Gato]

Partner, it was a Clinton legacy. Bush has done nothing to change it. It is fast becoming a Bush legacy.

This turns out not to be the case. Bush has asked for a supplemental appropriation for defense for this year, which is almost over, and I don't know if he got it or not. For next he is increasing the budget, assuming he can get all the Dims and just as importantly the RINOs in the Senate to go along. It's an uphill fight there. I'd have liked to see him ask for alot more of course, but Bush and his advisors are political realists, perhaps to a fault. I'd ask for what I thought was needed, propose to take a meatax to non Constitutionally authorized programs, and negotiate from there, not from what I though I could actually get. If nothing else it makes a good club to beat on the Dims.

[First_Salute]

My reply 10 is an error; sorry; very bad cold or flu "bug" has struck the keyboard operator.

What I'd been looking at were files at FR, leading up to Sept. 11, 2001, to see what activity against the U.S. had been reported, by chance, yet overlooked in the aftermath.

This story is remarkable.