HK wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Jan 16, 8:45 am, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:18 -0500, BAR wrote:
John H. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2z8uoy
Outstanding. I love close order drill.
Don't know if you've seen some of the things the military is doing to
prepare for a Democrat takeover:

http://tinyurl.com/yqzr56
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John H

I'm trying to avoid this political horse crap, but that post is truly
amazing.

How the heck can a guy live through an event, and then afterwards only
believe what Rush Limbaugh decides to spin about it?

The most egregious cuts in the military during the last 20 years
occured during the watch of the first Bush. His secretary of defense
at the time was.....Dick Cheney

To refresh your memory:

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Here was Secretary Cheney, testifying before the Senate Armed
Services Committee on Jan. 31, 1992:

"Overall, since I've been Secretary, we will have taken the five-year
defense program down by well over $300 billion. That's the peace
dividend. ... And now we're adding to that another $50 billion ... of so-
called peace dividend."

Cheney then lit into the Democratic-controlled Congress for not
cutting weapons systems enough:

"Congress has let me cancel a few programs. But you've squabbled and
sometimes bickered and horse-traded and ended up forcing me to spend
money on weapons that don't fill a vital need in these times of tight
budgets and new requirements. ... You've directed me to buy more M1s,
F14s, and F16s--all great systems ... but we have enough of them."

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Of course, 1992 was a while ago now. It's easier to remember the
rhetoric from the 2004 presidential campaign when Bill Clinton and
quite specifically John Kerry were both blamed for the very same cuts
that Dick Cheney took such pride in implementing- 12 years earlier.







snerk


What's going to matter this fall is the tanked economy.


If the previous time-line holds true this will be the next president's
recession.