U.S. Defense Budget
If anyone doubted that one of the major motives behind this war in the Gulf was panic in the Pentagon over talk of a peace dividend, the Feb. 4 press conference with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney should put that doubt to rest. To make matters worse--as our troops and Iraqi civilians are dying and in grave danger--the projections on future weapons and capabilities provided a clear display of Pentagon insensitivity, not to mention obscene opportunism.
ROBERT FOXWORTH
Beverly Hills
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