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To: SirRealist who wrote (16986)	1/21/2002 10:00:50 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 281500

Rumsfeld Slams Clinton Military Cutbacks While noting that U.S. armed forces remain the most powerful in the world, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blasted the Clinton administration Sunday for defense cutbacks he said left the military in such a "run-down" condition that rebuilding could take up to a decade. "The infrastructure had decayed and it is still decayed and it will take now probably six, eight, ten years to get it back to the place that it ought to be," Rumsfeld told NBC "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert. The Bush Defense Secretary then added, "It takes time to run-down a great military and it takes time to build one back up." He suggested that the full dimension of the Clinton cutbacks were only now being felt. "During a president's term of office, what he does with the military has very little effect during that period of time. Each president inherits what was done in preceding periods." Rumsfeld was responding to Democratic Party and media arguments that the U.S.'s success in the Afghanistan war shows that criticism of Clinton's military cutbacks is unjustified. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Let's see... There was a "reinventing government" budget initiative... It contained cuts which affected the armed forces and which did not affect the armed forces... At least they are not inventing a Social Security trust fund...