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To: Just Lori

"Clinton hurt our Military, financially and otherwise."

I don't want to pick a fight, but can you explain how Clinton hur our Military, when for most of his time in office Republicans had power in Congress. I really would like to know as I have a son in Special Forces, planning to do his 20.


83 posted on 12/13/2006 1:57:22 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
I don't want to pick a fight, but can you explain how Clinton hur our Military, when for most of his time in office Republicans had power in Congress.

Clinton took the extensive Bush Sr demobilization in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise even further, and brought our military down to levels too low for our global committments.

The Clinton trashing of our military used to be a common complaint around here. As the years go by, without any effort to raise the military back up to previous levels, you hear it a lot less. It's kind of hard to blame Clinton for a problem you've had over five years to fix yourself.

92 posted on 12/13/2006 6:07:28 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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