Transition Zone

"Yang, AthD \(h.c\)" <eacmole@//AWOLBUSH//mail.com> wrote in message news:<4IKdna2jcYaF1Q7dRVn-tw@comcast.com>...
> If Reagan "doesn't really cut defense, he becomes the No. 1 special pleader
> in town...The severity of the deficit is great enough that the president has
> to reach out and take a whack at everything to be credible...If you're going
> to rule out the other two [Social Security cuts and a tax increase], then
> you've got to hit defense."
> - Dick Cheney quoted in the Washington Post, 12/16/84

I'm sure Cheney doesn't want the military to take it personal.

It's only business.

jwk

mogulah@hotmail.com (Transition Zone) wrote in message news:<3f224cda.0405010516.7b0619b7@posting.google. com>...
> "Yang, AthD \(h.c\)" <eacmole@//AWOLBUSH//mail.com> wrote in message news:<4IKdna2jcYaF1Q7dRVn-tw@comcast.com>...
> > If Reagan "doesn't really cut defense, he becomes the No. 1 special pleader
> > in town...The severity of the deficit is great enough that the president has
> > to reach out and take a whack at everything to be credible...If you're going
> > to rule out the other two [Social Security cuts and a tax increase], then
> > you've got to hit defense."
> > - Dick Cheney quoted in the Washington Post, 12/16/84
>
> I'm sure Cheney doesn't want the military to take it personal.
>
> It's only business.

Just like it is only business when the kids in the military have to
die in Iraq. The oil business or the revenge business, pick one.

jwk