Bill Clinton Systematically Dismantled The U.S. Military. What Would Hillary Do?

Question

......You remember all of the defence spending cuts and base closings, don`t you ? What would Hillary do if she were to become president "again" ?

Answer 1

yeah..ok that "dismantled military" barely took over Iraq didn't it? That "dismantled" military sure seemed to be in fine shape when it took over Iraq in a matter of days. No sitting President fights a war with his Military they fight it with their predecessors, Bush was in office less than a year when we mobilized our military..so that was Clinton's Military that took Iraq. Nice try buddy.

Answer 2

You stated base closings, yet are curiously ignorant of the backside Realignment and Closure (BRAC) technique. It substitute into began formerly President Reagan left workplace and it has persevered because, with the main up-tp-date record of closings created in 2005. The president does not close the bases. The record is created by potential of an self sufficient fee and until eventually Congress blocks the full record, the Secretary of protection is had to accomplish the closings and realignments.

Answer 3

Actually that started at the end of Reagan's presidency and continued downward through Bush 1. I also want to point out that most of those closings and cuts were recommended by - the military.

Answer 4

Billary would do the same thing! Shelley you better look again, because he cut the military to levels as low as pre Pearl Harbor days. He also undermined the intelligence agencies. And because he didn't believe in spies he left this country vulnerable to attack.
We had no defense when hit on 9/11 Bush had just been in office a short while and was trying to rebuild the military and intelligence.
Of course that's not all Bill did. Of course what he was doing in the oral office did interfere with his concentration on his job!

.Edit: Open Thoughts is right, what money I have would be pulled and sent out of the U.S. if Hillary became president!

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Answer 5

WRONG

Bush has fought two wars with the army Clinton built

In fact, the Clinton administration actually spent more money on defense than the previous administration of President George H.W. Bush. The smaller outlays during the first Bush administration were developed and approved by then-Defense Secretary Cheney and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. The Clinton administration did not coast on Reagan-era procurement funding. During the 1990s, the Pentagon invested more than $1 trillion in developing and procuring new weapons and information technology that gave U.S. forces such an unprecedented advantage in the last two U.S. military campaigns.

But more significant than the budget increases was the shift that occurred in the mid-1990s. That shift involved much greater emphasis on precision weapons, sensors, robotics, advanced communications, training, readiness, and orienting the intelligence community toward direct support of military operations.

It was that shift that produced the superb military that not only swept through Iraq at a rate that defied historical precedent, but used its awesome force with unprecedented precision and effect, unprecedented low collateral damage, and unprecedented low casualty rates.

It was the American Revolution in Military Affairs begun in the Clinton administration that was unveiled in Bush's Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Answer 6

Excuse me, what? Bases were supposed to be closed in the 1980s, but the democratic congress held that up (because base closings are REALLY hard on a congressperson's economy).
Just because Clinton didn't want to put EVERY last dollar into the military, including for programs the Pentagon didn't want or were too risky to be successful (see the Time magazine article about the "new" hellicopter) doesn't mean that he "dismantled" the US Military.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/97-305.pdf

Answer 7

you realize the president can not do that right? Clinton is not to blame for it. to the other poster,US involvement in Somalia and the Balkan conflict started when G H W Bush was in office. Hillary will do nothing

Answer 8

Actually that was an act of the Republican controlled Congress. Clinton merely made the decision which bases would close.

Answer 9

The base closing were the result of the end of the cold war. We didn't need them anymore. It was part of what the first president Bush referred to as the "peace dividend".

Answer 10

I think some body has systematically put false information into your head.

The truth you seek -
"The Sorrows of Empire" Johnson, Chalmers
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