You can not help but loathe all of them over this. It isn’t a DEM vs GOP issue it is a right vs wrong issue and all three presidents after Reagan as well as congress during this time frame are on the wrong side of the fight. As China builds up military wise and Russia sets idle but capable of production, we have people as we speak working in our DOD facilities dismantling not only the machinery but the buildings as well where our weapons were produced. Not even Russia was this stupid. Only we can be the guaranteers of our future and freedom as well as our own national defense.
I agree, but I would note that Congress was bucking Xlinton as best it could on NMD, since he held the Executive Branch, he could...and did...lie and stonewall. Finding compliant military officers to mouth supposed technical justifications for his ideological predeterminations.
Just like W does on border enforcement.
As for the Congress under W, it looks like a lot of the top heads in Congress were not very conversant with Defense issues, and they tended to believe the Administration's cock-and-bull excuses for not getting it done right...and they didn't listen to their own in-house experts warning that W was not being straight with them.
To wit: Rep. Duncan Hunter, and Curtis Weldon...and even Senator Jon Kyl, previously before the Shamnesty Fiasco. Kyl was openly mystified at the complete disinterest of the White House and the Dept of Homeland Security to spend a paltry $14 billion that would greatly improve national preparedness for an immense crippling EMP attack well within the capability of China....