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To: TimF who wrote (166776)	4/6/2003 3:30:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579770

So if CLinton gutted the military why were we so strong a year and two years after he left office? You really believe Bush, whose defense budget was lower than Gore's, suddenly transformed the military? Get a clue. These systems we're using now and all the training and tech takes 5-10 years to develop. The prep work was done during the Clinton era when we downsized from Cold War to rapid-response light high-tech precision mode. We also learned a lot during the Gulf War and Kosovo and implemented those important improvements. Your accusation of Clinton is just repetition of a gross GW Bush camopaign lie, telling the US public we had a division which was not ready for duty. It was total BS, as the Generals said the next day. But the lie stuck, at least amongst the loud truth-challenged right-wing mouth-pieces. Yes Bush has vastly increased defense spending, but he didn't do it until AFTER 9-11. Before that his only security-defense priority was SDI, a system which has no credible use against any existing threat.