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Originally Posted by daswig
Did you even read what you quoted? From your quote:
What does that mean? It means that Bush I cut the military to the bone to take the so-called "peace dividend", and then Clinton took it 15% FURTHER. Your links prove my point FOR me. Yeah, we've got a high state of readiness, which is why we're scrambling for troops in Iraq. Damn, those 15% of the armed forces personnel would have sure come in handy about a year ago...but they'd already been cut.
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That's funny, I seem to remember that the Bush administration has lobbied for a smaller, more strategic force of elite soldiers....it's almost as if they hadn't planned for a long occupation of Iraq. Of course, it will always be easier to blame everything on the last administration that you opposed.