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In the last five-plus years, untold billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on the construction and upgrading of permanent bases.

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    hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Here is a good line from the article:

    """Someday, before this is over, all of us may actually see what was built in our names with our dollars. That will be a shock, especially when you consider what the Bush administration has proved incapable of building, or rebuilding, in New Orleans and elsewhere in this country. In the meantime, the President appears headed for yet another self-inflicted defeat."""

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