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To: combjelly who wrote (361178)12/3/2007 10:41:55 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573928
 
"And much of the so-called slashing occurred under Bush 1."

Only he didn't call it "slashing" - he called it a "Peace Dividend". Seeing that we STILL spend 10X what our nearest friendly rival spends and 1000X what the "terrorists" spend, we didn't cut NEARLY enough.



To: combjelly who wrote (361178)12/3/2007 11:47:33 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573928
 
Most of the reduction occurred under Clinton. It can be argued that it was wise (at least some of it was, even if Clinton went to far, we didn't need a military as large as what we had for the cold war), but my point is not "Clinton shouldn't have cut", but rather that Clinton was in a very advantageous position to have a balanced budget, because he had the opportunity to make these cuts and for other reasons.


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