Look at this:
Look at the DoD budget before 9/11.
Look at it now.
Look at it into the future.
One war is over, the other very nearly.
Why is the projected DoD budget not being returned to pre-war levels?
As long as the GOP opposes Defense spending cuts, they need to shut their pie-holes about their "fiscal conservatism". They come across as raging hypocrites.
And anyone who is around today claiming to be a conservative who does not speak out against this will probably years from now claim they did, just like they claim they were always against Bush's spending. But we know better, don't we.
The GOP today is the "borrow and spend" party. This is irrefutable fact.