Freeper Response Alert: Here's one you can throw back at 'em

[burythehatchet]

They're always talking about Clinton/Gore decimated the armed forces. Point out to them that, as Al Franken so ably pointed out it Lying Liers, Clinton's military was fully prepared to go into Afghanistan and Iraq. But now, three years into C+Augustus's war, basic equipment like flak jackets are not getting to our troops.



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[sydneycarton]

1. I think the right has an argument

http://www.mfrc-dodqol.org/pdffiles/I_Militar_%20Personnel.pdf

Look at 1.06 and 1.08. I'm not especially proud of what happened to the military under President Clinton.

Mike

[burythehatchet]

2. Hey Sydney...welcome to DU

I couldn't open the link. Just as well, my computer's bullshit sensor was going hay wire as it tried to contact the site.

My Mozilla Firefox browser is set to immediately quash links when the BS sensor hits the orange dot.

Please stick around for a while. Let yourself become imbued with the light of truthful and honest debate.

:hi:

[sydneycarton]

9. Thanks for the welcome

This is the first bulletin board I have posted on. I'm pretty much in the middle. Kerry is a little liberal for me, but he's all we've got. I hope I don't piss off the far left guys too much.

Mike

[Democat]

12. Wouldn't that be Bush Sr. who did that to the military?

Why do you choose to blame Clinton instead of Bush Sr.?

[CatWoman]

3. Mike -- Bush 1 ordered the drawdown

I know because I was in the service at the time.

[burythehatchet]

5. Hey Catwoman

you gonna try and come to the ATL meet up?

(the poster formerly known as BradNailer)

[CatWoman]

6. Hey Doll!!!

of course I will try!!

:hi:

I see you want to have it outside.

CatWoman doesn't do spring and outdoors very well :(

[burythehatchet]

7. allergies?

[CatWoman]

11. yep

Uly and I have an inside joke -- his dog, Scarlett has allergies too.

We call me Itchy, and Scarlett Scratchy :D

[Vickers]

4. Hey Mike, I too was in the military in 1990

That corresponds to the peak in your graphs.

Lemme tellya, there was a whole SHITLOAD of folks that were superfluous! The combination of Bush I and Clinton thinning the herd was necessary, trust me.

Heck, Daddy Bush was PAYING folks to get out in 91/92!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. 1990 falls under Poppy, not Clinton....

...the downsizing of the military was ordered by Cheney and Poppy Bush following Desert Storm I. Clinton got stuck implementing the plan left behind by Poppy.

[Jacobin]

10. Jeeze, nobody here remembers the "peace dividend"?????????

The way it went was as follows: Saint Ronnie killed the Russian Bear, now we can cut the military to the bone and we will all be rich. This was spearheaded by the republicans.

The historical revision among the repukes never ceases to amaze me.

[Joanne98]

13. The Pentagon should be renamed "The Money Pit"

There's a trillion dollars they can't find right now. No doubt Bushco stole it. Even Pat Buchcanan says we have to start shutting down bases overseas. They're nothing but resort areas with nice golfcourses for the "Officers Welfare Queens Club" to vacation for free at. The Officers gouge themselves while the troops suffer. Then they retire in the private sector into cushy jobs where they're paid millions to do nothing. It's all a scam. The whole DOD needs to be "debushified". That will save alot of money and defund the parasitic Bush family at the same time. Look how fast they moved into Saddam's palances they bitched about so much. Now we no that they were just jealous. Put the officers on a diet. Feed the troops.:)

[burythehatchet]

14. We'll never know about that money

I bet they paid themselves and put the rest to secret weapons programs. You know THEY exist.