Just out of curiosity, I put soldiers' paycut + Bush in Google, and it came up with this, apparently reprinted from the San Francisco Chronuicle Troops in Iraq face pay cut

Maybe that's all lies or something. But it reads as if artbrooks' was maybe spinning the facts a bit just now.

For example: "The Defense Department supports the cuts, saying its budget can't sustain the higher payments amid a host of other priorities. But the proposed cuts have stirred anger among military families and veterans' groups and even prompted an editorial attack in the Army Times, a weekly newspaper for military personnel and their families that is seldom so outspoken."