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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
As much as I liked Clinton, I don't think I would want him to be president at this time (or maybe at all) because of his military job cuts.
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Of all the reasons not to like Clinton, this one drives me absolutely up the wall. Bush I started the cuts, and for a VERY good reason: we no longer had 100,000 Soviet tanks staring at us across the German border, and the "peace dividend" simply continued under Clinton.
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