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How Clinton Decimated the Military

On Friday night, Rep. Duncan Hunter, http://www.GoHunter08.com former
chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and now its ranking
Republican member, appeared on the Hannity and Colmes show on Fox, and I was
astonished to hear him castigated for failing to see that our troops in Iraq
needed equipment.

He was specifically challenged on matter of the alleged lack of body armor
for our troops in Iraq, and the administration's alleged failure to ensure
that our troops had the protection the armor affords them.

Ignored were certain inconvenient facts such as the amount of body armor
that was available under Bill Clinton, which was zero. Today under President
Bush and thanks to Duncan Hunter's work in the Armed Services Committee,
which authorized the funds to purchase the body armor, the armed services
have one million sets of body armor. That's one million!

It's puzzling to see the media ignore the disastrous cutbacks in our armed
services that took place under Bill Clinton, and the extraordinary efforts
of the Bush administration and Hunter's committee to beef up our military.

A million sets of body armor available on Sept 10 2001 would not have
had any effect on what happened Sept 11 2001.

News Flash: The Cold War was over. The US was the only super-power.
We didn't need body armor until Bush began his Iraqi Misadventure.

Under Clinton, for example, the number of armored Humvees available to the
military was a pitiful 1,300. Under President Bush it's over 26,000.

How many troops died because of that, under Clinton?

And it was not just Clinton who sapped our strength - Congress under the
Democrats has just turned thumbs down on the Pentagon's request for $4.75
billion for the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles that can safeguard
our troops from the IED explosions which are responsible for a large part of
the deaths and wounding of our soldiers and Marines.

Look, it's been 7 years since Clinton was in office. Bush and
Rumsfeld are solely responsible for the crap that's happening to our
soldiers now.