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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (205660)	11/29/2001 7:21:29 PM
From: Dr. Doktor	Respond to of 769670

Thats like wondering if the Pope is Catholic. Democrats ALWAYS scream to spend our money. DOC

To: greenspirit who wrote (205660)	11/29/2001 7:40:26 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Well those who should not have their votes counted is a place where hillaricrats do cut past the bone to save money. Weinberger: Clinton Cut Army to Less Than Half its Gulf War Size Former Reagan Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger said Thursday that ex-President Bill Clinton cut back the U.S. military so severely that it's now just a fraction of the size of the fighting force that won the Gulf War ten years ago. "Just the Army alone that won the Gulf War along with 31 very fine coalition partners was over 900,000," he told WABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "And now it's under 400,000 - just about 400,000, which is a tremendous drop. And that's just one service." The Reagan defense chief, whose new book "In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century" catalogues the Clinton-era's military neglect, suggested the cutbacks were so debilitating they may have left the U.S. unequipped to fight a multi-front war against terrorism. Weinberger gave Hannity an abbreviated version of the damages: "We also lost air and sea lift (capacity). We don't have forward position troops anymore. We had a procurement holiday for two or three years in which we didn't acquire anything. And we cut our research and development expenditure that was responsible for those weapons that enabled us to win the Gulf War at such little cost." "By every count," Weinberger said of Clinton, "he was very neglectful of the military. I don't think he understood it. I don't think he liked it. And it was a very bad period for the military. Morale was very low." Weinberger told the radio talker that while he didn't think Clinton consciously set out to undermine the U.S.'s armed forces, he cared so little about them that deterioration was inevitable. "His foreign policy was basically to get reelected.... that took precedence over everything else," the former defense chief said. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee