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**Diff-chan** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:55 PM

Clinton inherited a military that was prepped and built for a war with the Soviets... after the Soviets were defeated.I dont see why it was such a horrible crime to trim it down. Honestly I think the amount of money the gubment spends on defense is horrifying. Even after his cuts we were spending more than every other nation on Earth combined.

**Othello Harrington** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:55 PM

I have NO LOVE for Cheney, he lies more that I did trying to get some ass at prom. I suppose you thought I liked his crooked ass?

Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Clinton inherited a military that was prepped and built for a war with the Soviets... after the Soviets were defeated.I dont see why it was such a horrible crime to trim it down. Honestly I think the amount of money the gubment spends on defense is horrifying. Even after his cuts we were spending more than every other nation on Earth combined.

A blind deaf idiot savant would have know that the problems in the middle east were far from over diff.

**Diff-chan** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

A blind deaf idiot savant would have know that the problems in the middle east were far from over diff.

Fair enough... so Bush has greatly increased military spending... and his military can't defeat an "insurgency in its last throes".

Hmm.

**Othello Harrington** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:56 PM

We are asked by every god damn two bit country to police the world Diff. That's the problem.

You think we should maybe send France or Italy to Isreal to calm down the situation?

**FirstBlood** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:57 PM

Someone get Almaci in here!

**Othello Harrington** · 27 Jul 2006, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Fair enough... so Bush has greatly increased military spending... and his military can't defeat an "insurgency in its last throes".

Hmm.

Let's see, Killed #2, Killed #3, Killed the religious leader, no attacks on our country, and we are gradually rebuilding a VASTLY under educated infrastructure, we are doing okay in my book.

Originally Posted by FirstBlood

Someone get Almaci in here!

Ban Pls.

**g0zen** · 28 Jul 2006, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

The left likes to equate Reagan supporting Afghanistan against the Soviet Union with Reagan building Al Qaeda.

Because that's exactly what happened.

Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

It's like saying Wilson built the Nazis after World War I;

Not in the least. I don't remember reading in history books how after the Treaty of Versailles the Wilson administration sent millions of taxpayer's dollars in both weapons and straight-up cash to proto-fascists like Reagan did the mujahideen fighters who we KNEW were extremely fundamentalist adherents of the Saudis wahhabist doctrine that eventually became al-Queda.

Nor did Wilson leave Germany with a gapping power vaccum right after the war ended, they established the Weimar Republic. By contrast, when Reagan left Afghanistan he left it to years of civil strife in which moderate Muslims were slaughtered and any hopes of a democracy taking root in the region were quashed.

Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

You can talk about the rise of jihadism as an ideology all you like (anti-Western Islamic Jihadism can be traced back a thousand years) but the bottom line is that an escalating series of jihadist attacks against America occured on Clinton's watch, not Bush Sr's or Reagan's

Actually, the rise of Islamism as an ideology of anti-modernization and anti-West is recognized pretty well as starting with the Iranian Revolution. You know, those plucky little fellows who Reagan decided it was best to sell WEAPONS to after they'd taken American diplomats hostage.