Is Dick Cheney anti-military?

January 25th, 2008 at 02:35pm Pat Cunningham

 

It’s an article of faith among conservatives that Democrats want to close all of our U.S. military bases and turn them into hippie communes while Republicans are patriots whose support of our troops never wavers and whose willingness to lavish money on the Pentagon knows no bounds.

This theory doubtless was behind a remark made last night by Rudy Giuliani at the Republican presidential debate in Florida:

“Bill Clinton cut the military drastically. It’s called the peace dividend, one of those nice- sounding phrases, very devastating. It was a 25, 30 percent cut in the military.”

Ah, but it wasn’t Clinton who came up with the plan to cut the military during the 1990s.  It was Dick Cheney, who was secretary of defense under the first President Bush.

John Aravosis has the truth of the matter HERE.

And The New York Times has THIS.

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