[FLCowboy,]

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

Then it is really George Herbert Walker Bush's army that George II was using. All Bill Clinton did was to be a caretaker, and a da** poor one at that.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

They were cannibalizing nuclear cruise missiles to load with conventional warheads because the Army was out and the Navy was almost out. We spent 18 months rebuilding stocks with shifts working around the clock before we could think about war in Iraq.