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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 18 06:15:53 PDT 2001


Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote:


>Doug forwarded:
>
>>The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 16, 2001
>>
>>Joe Lieberman, who big party contributors believe is eyeing his own
>>run for the White House in 2004, is attacking Bush's tax cut for
>>diverting resources from the military buildup America needs.
>
>Well yes but the point remains that Star Wars was not actively
>pursued for eight years under the Democrats, no? Maybe Gore and
>Lieberman would have used a bigger military budget for an anti
>ballistic missle system--I don't know. But there is no doubt that
>with Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney. And I maintain there was an
>appreciably better chance of not going forward had Gore taken
>office. Isn't it something that the South Koreans have voiced
>opposition to American military strategy? At any rate, on what
>exactly does Lieberman want to spend money?

So why didn't you vote for Gore?

Doug



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