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Subject: Re:Nicaraguan parallel
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 10:15:55 EDT
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ism780!michaelf says:

>How can you say our armed forces are not politicized? More of my tax 
>dollars go to the military than anywhere else. I would say the military 
>is very Republican.

Hmm.. interesting thought. However if you research the origions of the 
nuclear arms race it seems that current programs are just a continuation 
of programs that were begun in the late 50's at the urging and essential
blackmail of certain leading Democrats, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert 
Humphrey most notably. The then Republican President (Eisenhower) 
resisted their programs and challenged the studies their anti-communist 
panic were based on because he did not believe that the American public 
needed to or wanted to unbalance the federal budget to buy into a defense 
posture that could not be relied on for anything other than revenge 
after the fact. I know all about the deterrant factor, it exists I 
agree. But do we or did we *need* bombs that were 100 times more 
powerful than the bombs we dropeed on Japan? Probably not.  They were 
the pet project of a lunitic named Edward Teller who still talks about 
acceptable losses and survivability. Even the Democrats who have been 
in the majority in the house most of the time must have been voting for 
all of these bombs and planes or the Republicans would not have been 
able to buy them for their "buddies" in the Military.

 Many Career military men are in fact, Republicans. Many are in fact 
Democrats. The military is representative of the general population. It 
is *NOT* politicised and cannot be as it is forbidden for *anyone* 
reguardless of rank to actively participate in any form of campaigning.
See the UCMJ and any set of regs.


Dave Bottom
DEC Augusta Maine
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