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Why do we need another department to defend our country? Don't we have enough military, and alphabet agencies to do the job? Is it that all along, we've been fooled into thinking we were secure, and suddenly, government finds that it needs more heads to make us secure? I don't buy it.

I think the homeland security issue is but another excuse for more expenditure, and more expansive government.

America must be ultra secure, but ultra free which is a hard balance, but if we lose freedom in our persuit of security, then the terrorists really have won.

We do not need more government. We need the $2,000,000,000,000 dollar budget used to secure the country, not expand the government.

Why do we need another department to defend our country?

Think consolidation. If "W" gets his way, my suspicion is much of the responsibility of our "not so efficient" and Rat infested agencies will be rolled into the new agency. Hence, the reason for the flexibility to manage this new agency. JMO...

FGS