[rlmorel]

txradioguy, thanks for your service. Honestly.

I do want to point out that there are many aspects of this situation that can indeed be laid at the feet of previous administrations. They are not blameless in this. Indeed, the cavalier approach taken to military preparedness and response to terrorist events, particularly their policy of viewing them as "law enforcement" issues may be the main reason we were struck on 9/11, and as a result, the main reason we are over there now.

We can disagree on this, but it is definitely not kool-aid or tin-foil hat wearing material to implicate the Clinton administration in this.

[jpsb]

I completely agree, the Clinton admin, was way to qucik to cash in on the peace bonus that the end of the cold war brought. Clinton striped the Army down to bare bones, sold screts to the Chicoms, involves us in places we had no business being, etc, etc, etc.

The bush admin is vastly better, night and day, but the Bush admin is not perfect and makes mistakes, everyone does. 20/20 hindsight and all that, I am not dissing DoD, DoD will get the job done, I just don't like seeing someone that asks a hard question strung up. That just doesn't seem fair to me.