Fighting rightist meme that Clinton let the military decline.

[Cary]

Anyone got any links to dispute this?

[shoelace414]

1. is the military better off today than in 2000?

[shaolinmonkey]

2. Dick Cheney contracted (surprise) Halliburton to study

on how to best downsize the military. Surprise again! Halliburton concluded that their business model was best! Such amazing synergy.

More wonderful Cheney-ness here:

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/index.html

Edited for spelling.

[Democrats_win]

4. Franken actually told a repub, Clinton's military did a pretty good job

in Afghanistan and Iraq, didn't it? Franken's book "Lying Liars.." has the story. It relates to a Cheney assertion that it takes about 4(?) years to change the military. Also consider how Clinton's prudence was so effective in Yugoslavia.

Interesting that 4 years under our lying bush, the military isn't looking so hot. They'll need a war to prove their worth.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Definietly better back then

Especially with all going on now. Nobody wanting to join up and everything. I remember hearing there was some war thing in Clinton's years and he used hardly any military. What was that event?

[saracat]

3. Bush said he had the best trained best equipped army in history and

they "won" the war with it. He had the army bequeathed him by Clinton. Every president has his predecessors army. They were either the "best trained and equipped" or gutted. Can't be both.

[CottonBear]

5. Some repub trotted that one out on Wash. journal

this morning. God, it drives me crazy. They'll bring that up non matter what the topic. Clinton, his policies and The Clenis are to balme for everything! Arghhhhhhhhh!

It's Funny; somehow I remember the 8 years of Clinton as good.

[CottonBear]

6. delete. dupe.

[wuushew]

7. The actual budget perhaps

Conclusion
Clearly, the spending levels during the Bush Sr. administration remained relatively constant during the Clinton administration, despite the end of both the Gulf War and the Cold War in 1991. The 'gutting of the military' appears to be a gross exaggeration.


http://www.getluky.net/projects/policyresearch/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. "The world's mightiest military" needs more dough?

Yeah, like Donald Trump does.

[PurityOfEssence]

9. Clinton wasn't building a military for world conquest

The fact that we don't have enough infantry for our wars of domination is because that wasn't our bent before this mob took over.

[Nederland]

10. That's easy

Nothing changes that quickly in the military, so just point out that it was a "Clinton military" that kicked ass in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[DistantWind88]

12. Too bad about that armor thing, though.

[Cary]

13. Except it didn't take them long to armor up,

now did it? Clinton didn't anticipate that Bush would be occupying foreign countries. Did anyone else?

Apparently Bush didn't even anticipate it.