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To: leadpenny; Ron2
"Six years is way too long to continue to place any blame on the Clinton administration"

I was booted out of the Navy Reserve during the CLintoon years despite having Surface Warfare quals and 8 years active duty. If we can blame the Stalin purges in the 1920s and 30s for the Russian problems in WWII, I think Clintoon can take some heat for screwing with the US military (he balanced the budget with DoD cuts alone (and the dot com tax revenue boom).
122 posted on 12/14/2006 4:29:51 AM PST by razzle
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To: razzle
It's not that Clinton doesn't deserve blame for what he did. Bush Sr's original cuts were pretty deep, and Clinton took it deeper still.

So, six years later or sixty, he'll be responsible for what he did in the 90s. That has no bearing on the fact that our current Administration has kept the size of Clinton's downsized military, which everyone seems to agree is too small, and then vastly increased our global committmets. We've had six years to fix the problem, and have done practically nothing to do so. Blaming Clinton now is a little like buying a car that needed an oil change, and then not changing the oil for five years, while blaming the seller for screwing you.

While he irresponsibly handed us a small military from a relatively peaceful decade, what does it say about the current Administration to be more than halfway through a decade filled with war, and STILL haven't built the military back up?

123 posted on 12/14/2006 4:37:10 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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