Credit military success to Clinton's policies, not Bush's defense spending spree

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | April 10, 2003 | Matt Miller

[Free_at_last_-2001]

"the clinton military"

[RooRoobird14]

James Woosley (former CIA director) is also on record corroborating the video piracy story about Clinton. That was one of the reasons he resigned from the CIA.

[antaresequity]

The reality is that Bill Clinton's defense budgets roughly tracked the blueprint left by then-defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1992

Ummm...I love it when the Clinton bootlickers throw themselves on their own swords

[rj45mis]

The guy who wrote this article is propagating a big lie, perhaps on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's future political ambitions.

Well said and quite insightful, methinks.

[the_Watchman]

Actually, this whole war can be laid at Clinton's feet. He was the President who decided that we should not talk about terrorists states anymore. Instead, we would chastise the terrorist organizations directly. Unfortunately, this left the host nations for these terrorist organizations with no responsibility.

Worse yet, when we went after the terrorist organizations we wound up bombing aspirin factories and empty terrorist camps and WE WERE VIOLATING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HOST NATIONS.

President Bush has put us back on track with the notion of a terrorist state being one which hosts terrorist organizations. He has served notice on all states that there will be consequences for hosting terrorist activities within their borders. This message was costly to deliver and took a couple of wars for proper emphasis because of the 8 years of misdirection and half-hearted actions which made us look like inneffective wimps.

[steve-b]

The record of "Bill Clinton's military" was written in the sands of Mogadishu. End of argument.

[Normal4me]

So now we are killing innocent Iraqi woman and children with "Democrat" hardware? How does Dashole feel about this?

[arielb]

this idiot doesn't realize that a Republican congress was in charge of defense spending. Clinton was afraid to use it in Somalia (no armor), Kosovo (no ground force or Apaches), or Afghanistan (just a bunch of cruise missiles which failed to remove al qaeda/taliban). You need presidential leadership to do whatever it takes, as much as it takes to finish the job. Bush is doing it while Clinton failed

[Semper Paratus]

Next we are going to hear that the Iraqi War Plan was conceived and written by WC in 98.

[gnarledmaw]

"Credit military success to Clinton's policies"

Theyre right on! Can you imagine what would have happened to the pain killer industry if all those Sudanese aspirins had ever gotten to market?!?!?!

[Irish Eyes]

I thought this was a piece from The Onion!

I thought so too I had to look again at the link to the article. It just shows you what sorts of disinformation is out there.

[amused]

Every leftist has been railing that Clinton isn;t responsible for anything in the last 2 years including the economy, 9-11, the Iraq situation etc. Now they want credit for him.

Ahhh the Clinton way, grab credit for success no matter your participation and blame someone else for your failures.

[Stopislamnow]

The left feeds thier children baby formula laced with LSD and crack.

It's the ONLY possible thing to explain it.

[Gil4]

The problem with Clintoon and the military wasn't the lack of spending - liberals know how to spend money. The problem was he kept confusing the military with the peace corps.

Also, wasn't there a major shortage of cruise missiles that was rectified after he left office. The shortage was created because his favorite tactic was "to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." (to borrow a quote from the current holder of the office)

[gov_bean_ counter]

The writer of this article is completely clueless regarding the procurement process, milestones and weapons production phases. Eighteen months is more than long enough to take a shelved prototype through testing and production.

The real analysis would be in taking a look at shelved designs. I'm betting that great ideas were dusted off and pushed through the system.

[baseballmom]

Captain David Christian worked for Presidents Ford, Carter (was fired by Carter), Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.

He ticked off the military apparatus we are using and most of it can be traced directly to Ronald Reagan's term. The B-52 is more than 50 years old and keeps getting re-outfitted (if that is the proper term).

This guy is a Clinton Legacy Burnisher.

[GreatOne]

This idiot omits (ignores) that the morale of the military is another huge factor in its present success. I have two brothers who are active duty U.S.A.F., both Majors. They were very close to quitting, along with a great number of their comrades, while The Evil One was still president, and would have if Algore had won.

The military had a huge leadership crisis during Bubba's 2nd term, because a large number of the Captains bailed out rather than serve under him. Write about THAT, Evil One suck-up!

[Billthedrill]

Funny, I didn't see Clinton's ugly phiz under a helmet in the lead tank. I'm thinking we ought to reserve just a little credit for the victory for the guys who fought it.

Let's see...Clinton..."loathe the military," right? First act in office was to cut retirement benefits, right? Used the military as political spoils for his gay and lesbian constituents, right? "Those are ours now," one of his aids said, looking at a flight of fighters, right? Wife ordered Marines to carry her suitcases and cursed at them, right? "I don't speak to people in uniform" said another aide, right? "Meals on wheels" in Haiti, right? Mogadishu, right? Yeah, tell me about Clinton and the military...

[dfwgator]

Bill Clinton himself said the same thing a few weeks before the war even started, that it was his policies that were going to make this an easy war in Iraq. It's always about him.

[dfwgator]

Bill Clinton's approach to war was bombing aspirin factories and cardboard tanks.