homework
Between 2001 (the year of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan) and 2003 (the year of the war in Iraq), the US armed forces (army, marines, navy, air force) increased from 1,385,000 to 1,414,000, or 2%.
census.gov
census.gov
This puny increase was done in the face of hugely increased burdens on our armed forces, and represents a tiny percentage of the allegedly disastrous cuts during the Clinton years.
By the way, had the Bush administration used the $100 billion annual tax cuts they have scheduled for the next decade to increase the size of the armed forces, they could have completely reversed Clinton's cuts. I am sure the country would have gladly agreed to that after 9/11.
But Bush chose NOT to do that, and instead distributed tax cuts to the populace. |
