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In a message of 28 Aug 92 23:23:04, Greg Woods wrote:
GW> >I'll gladly pay for the common defense of the country
GW>
GW> Me too, but I don't consider most of what is done with our "defense"
GW> budget to have much to do with common defense. How does it "defend"
GW> us to be over there attacking Iraq? Even if Hussein is a slimeball,
GW> you can't call this 'defense'.
Me three. Actually the best common defence is an armed citizenry. If all of us are trained in the use of our weaponry, we are pretty well defended I'd say.