Gunny
Gold Member
I will admit to not paying close attention during the 90s, as making money was far more important to me than politics, and if you say that Clinton sent you out with stuff rigged so many times it was held together with bailing wire and duct tape, I am forced to believe you... but... I don't recall Clinton ever deploying 160,000 troops anywhere... a few cruise missiles sure... but 160,000 troops? I don't think so.
The Iraq war is bush's baby... not Clinton's... so the state of the gear NOW is own bush's shoulders, not on Clinton's...
How many troops did Clinton deploy to Bosnia with what is now being called "insufficient gear"? How many troops deployed into possible hostile zones with that inadequate equipment? Hell, every one of us that went to Desert Storm had it.
I didn't blame this war on Clinton. But blaming military procurement on Bush is about the equivalent of it.