From: Dave 

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:20:37 +0200, "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
:

| > http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001846.asp
|
| > It's almost hard to believe, but with the Pentagon budget ballooning
| > more than six-fold in the past three years -- from $11 billion in 2002
| > to a projected $71 billion in 2005 -- "neither DOD nor Congress can
| > reliably know how much the war is costing and details of how
| > appropriated funds are being spent," according to the GAO's report.
|
| And if it's put in charge of domestic emergencies - as has been proposed
- | it will balloon further.
|
| Even less accountability.
|

Rather than giving the DOD MORE power over civilians, I think some should
be taken away.  Control of non-coastal waterways for a start...

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