Posted on 06/22/2016 10:22:52 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
In 1995, he introduced a bill to terminate America’s nuclear weapons program. As late as 2002, he supported a 50 percent cut for the Pentagon. And he says corrupt defense contractors are to blame for “massive fraud” and a “bloated military budget.” Since he arrived in Congress, Bernie Sanders has been a fierce crusader against Pentagon spending, calling for defense cuts that few Democrats have been willing to support. Should he defeat Hillary Clinton, analysts say, he will likely be the biggest critic of the Pentagon to win a major party nomination since World War II. Story Continued Below “He fits in that category of very liberal members of the U.S. Senate that have consistently attacked the Pentagon time and time again because they want the money to go to the entitlement side, even at a time when the world is more unstable and more dangerous,” said Arnold Punaro, a retired Marine Corps major general who served as Democratic staff director on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1980s. That position might benefit Sanders with liberal primary voters. But Democrats focused on national security fear it could be a liability in a general election among moderate voters more worried about terrorism and growing aggression from Russia and China. Some suggested that, if nominated, Sanders would struggle to win support and endorsements from Democratic-leaning retired military officials.
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Of course, Bernie has not attacked our troops to a greater extent than Wrong Paul.
Bernie and the Pentagon? Kinda oxymoronic.......
Well that came out of left field.
Bernie would make a great 3rd party candidate.
It came from Wrong Paul insisting in 1991 that our use of armored bulldozers and tanks with plow attachments to clear trench systems during the Gulf War was tantamount to war crimes.
Bernie has never gone as far in his loathing of the military as Wrong Paul.
You could say that it came from left field because aside from reigning in the fed Wrong Paul is and always has been an unabashed leftist.
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