Given that the Bush Administration has proposed a 7 % increase in the military budget for 2007, ($439 billion, "only a small share of the increase would cover specialized anti-terror and counter-insurgency systems") it's hard to see why the military-industrial complex would be mad with them. A sentimental attachment to those old howitzers, perhaps ? http://www.fpif.org/fpifoped/3206 O.K. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html