Why doesn't Clinton get credit for building a strong military?

Question

It was Clinton's military that made quick work of conquering Afghanistan.

hmm, all of you ex military griping about Clinton, have you went back in now that you have a real war in Iraq to go to? Or did you only like being on the government dole in play cammies for peace time?

Answer 1

Very true. Let's hear the right lie now.........

Answer 2

So sorry, I don't think Clinton had anything to do with helping build a strong military. He seemed to be totally uninterested in the military. He was of military age during the Vietnam war, yet did not serve; he was given an out because he was a Rhodes scholar & went to England for study. What makes you think that we conquered Afghanistan? If we did, why are our troops still there dieing daily?

Answer 3

Starting in 1993 Bill Clinton cut the military budget. Bill and Hill hate the military. They want nothing more than for us to loose in Iraq. I was in the military from 1991-95...Clinton screwed the military big time.

Answer 4

Wrong. Clinton cut military spending immediately after taking office. That's a fact. What was LEFT of the military after Clinton had shredded it was what made quick work of conquering Afghanistan.

Answer 5

Clinton's idea of "building a strong military" was to cut it by a third. If it were so strong, why are the Dems whinning that we used too few troops in Iraq? Fact was we didn't have the forces we used in the 91 war, a superb force built and equiped (under Democratic objections) by Reagan.

Answer 6

That is actually an impossibility, since all Clinton did was cut military funding whenever he had the chance.

The USS Cole should have had 25mm Bushmaster machine guns mounted on it. But budget cuts forced it's DesRon (Destroyer Squadron) to deploy it without the proper equipment for a ship going into hostile waters.

My ship was supposed to get a six month dry dock overhaul. But budget cuts forced my DesRon to cut that back to a three month pierside job and left us in and out of Mayport, FL for the next year and some change so their SIMA facility could finish the work - as funds came available.

The military was like Social Security in Clinton's eyes. A great source of revenue to produce his project-surplus budgets that never quite came out of the red ink any given year.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

"Col. David Hackworth, the most decorated U.S. soldier of the Vietnam War, has written a blistering open letter to President Clinton decrying the nation's military priorities. "In 52 years of hanging around soldiers, I have seldom seen the cutting edge of our fighting forces so dull, nor morale lower," Hackworth wrote. "The last time it fell so badly was during the Vietnam War. This gutting of American arms has happened on your watch and it's not because there's not enough money. Since Desert Storm, combat effectiveness has gone down hill like an out of control freight train even though we now spend 18 cents of every taxpayer dollar on defense... I suggest you assemble Shelton and your service chiefs and ask them the following questions:

Why are there more colonels than machine gunners in the US Army?
Why are there 150,000 military personnel hunkered down around Washington, DC, when infantry platoons, who close with the enemy, are uniformly 30 to 40 percent under strength?
Why does NATO have 44 U.S. Army Generals in Europe when we have but four fighting brigades there? This is roughly one general per rifle/tank company.
Why do the top generals and admirals in NATO have plush villas and fat staffs which require millions of dollars per year to support, while many of our warriors live in tin trailers and can't make it without food stamps?
Why do we have a national strategy which calls for our forces to be able to fight two Desert Storm-like wars simultaneously when we can't handle even one?
Why are we buying more high tech aircraft such as F-22 jet fighters, which alone will cost over 64 billion bucks and more missiles, helicopters, submarines, and ships, when the soldiers who fight on the ground are still packing essentially the same gear their dads toted in Vietnam?
Why is our warriors' chemical protection/detection gear totally inadequate? Didn't we learn from the Gulf War?
Why are pilots, young ground combat leaders and old salt NCOs quitting in unparalleled numbers?

Answer 9

Where are you getting that information? Clinton building a strong military? You should do some more research.

Answer 10

clinton downsized the military, and as far as military victory's go.... he has none remember "black hawk down" thats under his command. Besides the point, the president does play into the military governing factors but its the joint chiefs of staff, with there combat commanders that are responsible for the victory's and plunders

Answer 11

Hmm lets ask any United States military veteran who got cut from their jobs, homes, and duty because of the many military cut back programs instilled by Slick Willy.