Saturday, December 18, 2004
Clinton Cut the Military
"U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq."
There were the genuine cuts in the Clinton years and all during that time Rumsfeld was not there. But I'll tell you who was: Half of these senators that are bitching and moaning about this were there, and they had a chance to stop this and didn't.
Rush: Now they come to this late in life and they act like they got bamboozled again, like Rumsfeld was a one man show running the war and making sure our troops don't have armor because he doesn't care.
You had McCain piling on, you had Susan Collins piling on; Norm Coleman is the latest to pile on, from Minnesota. Lott piled on. It's frustrating here because these guys were all there. These guys were all in the Senate when all these cuts were made. I didn't hear any complaints about the Clinton administration back then. I didn't hear one complaint about it.
"U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq."
There were the genuine cuts in the Clinton years and all during that time Rumsfeld was not there. But I'll tell you who was: Half of these senators that are bitching and moaning about this were there, and they had a chance to stop this and didn't.
Rush: Now they come to this late in life and they act like they got bamboozled again, like Rumsfeld was a one man show running the war and making sure our troops don't have armor because he doesn't care.
You had McCain piling on, you had Susan Collins piling on; Norm Coleman is the latest to pile on, from Minnesota. Lott piled on. It's frustrating here because these guys were all there. These guys were all in the Senate when all these cuts were made. I didn't hear any complaints about the Clinton administration back then. I didn't hear one complaint about it.
