View Poll Results: Is this a good budget?

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Thread: OT: Gates' defense plans

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    OT: Gates' defense plans

    Cuts to:

    F22 production
    shipbuilding waste
    Future Combat Systems
    presidential helicopter
    new bomber development
    communications satellite building
    anti-missile systems
    navy and airforce reduction

    Extra budget to:

    drones
    special forces training
    army and marine corps numbers
    body armour
    armoured vehicles
    surveillance and intel

    I think it's a good budget. Anyone else?
    its safe to say that I train some martial arts. Im not that good really, but most people really suck, so I feel ok about that - Sunfist

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    Concur. ...
    The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
    ~ Mark Twain

    Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
    ~ Joe Lewis

    A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
    ~ Author unknown

    "You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"

    "Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"

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    This could be a boring thread.
    its safe to say that I train some martial arts. Im not that good really, but most people really suck, so I feel ok about that - Sunfist

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    OK, to spice it up a bit...

    Shaolinlueb: why do you think it doesn't make any difference?

    And those of you who supported Bush but think that this is a good way to go, what do you think has changed, or what do you think could change that makes this a sensible policy when you thought that Cheney and Wolfowitz's par-for-the-course warmongering escalation madness was a good idea? (Please feel free to ignore my contentious definition of Bush's policy and answer sensibly. I'm just busting your balls)
    its safe to say that I train some martial arts. Im not that good really, but most people really suck, so I feel ok about that - Sunfist

    Sometime blog on training esp in Japan

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    it can be argued ( so i will) that anmy nation just interested in "defence" would just invest in nuclear submarines and nothign else

    a moving nuclear weapons platform thats undetectable, cool huh.
    there are only masters where there are slaves

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    It's trying to strike a balance between symmetric and asymmetric warfare is all.
    The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
    ~ Mark Twain

    Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
    ~ Joe Lewis

    A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
    ~ Author unknown

    "You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"

    "Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"

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