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Politics : SUPPORT OUR TROOPS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (1930)	4/16/2003 12:20:07 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3592

Rid Of One Phony, Let’s Get Rid Of Another One At a rally in support of our troops, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the Democratic House leader and supreme anti-Bushite (her rhetoric is so much more acid then Tom Daschle’s that by comparison he would seem to be emasculated) had the audacity to attribute our military supremacy, training, readiness and ability to Bill Clinton. Now what left my mouth agape was not the ridiculous notion that anything military was fostered by the eight years of neglect by the Clinton Administration, most all of us that know better have gotten used to hearing that everything good came from the Clinton years (yea…right), but that she has the unmitigated gall to attempt to re-write the most recent of political history when, as one of her buddies Jacque Chirac would say, she missed “a perfect opportunity to remain silent.” "This best-trained, best-equipped, best-led force for peace in the history of the world was not invented in the last two years. This had a strong influence and strong support during the Clinton years," Ms. Pelosi continued to say that the military success in Iraq must be attributed “in large measure” to Bill Clinton. Her gall is only overshadowed by her talent to keep a straight face when lying so blatantly to the media and the American public. Saddam Hussein’s spokesman Mohammed al-Sahaf, who claimed that coalition forces were nowhere near Baghdad as plumes of smoke from smoldering craters created by coalition bombs rose behind him, and even Bill Clinton himself are out of her league when it comes to espousing non-truths. Throughout the Clinton regime the Pentagon’s budget never increased, not once. In fact, there was a steady decline of military funding through the eight long years that he was commander and chief including but not limited to research and development and weapons procurement. In fact, after the Gulf War and throughout the Clinton Administration the military shrunk 40% according to the House Republican Conference dated April 22, 1999. He never hid his disdain of the military from the media or the public as he whittled away at the Pentagon’s budget and the military in general. Morale was never lower in the military as when he was in office and if you don’t believe it I have to ask why the people enlisted in the military overwhelmingly voted for George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential election? This is one reason why it was so important to Al Gore’s “vote stealing team” during the moment in time when the term dangling chad became a household phrase that the military absentee ballots be excluded from the count. It’s not a secret, the military didn’t care for the Clinton’s, and that includes Hillary, and the Clinton’s didn’t care for the military, and that includes Hillary, unless it was to cover-up an affair with an intern. washingtondispatch.com