GUEST;

The cuts in military sending during the eight years of the Clinton administration damaged the readiness of the military severly. We had squadrons of fighters that could not field a full complement of planes because there were no spare parts available to make needed repairs. They had to cannibalize one or two to keep the others in the air.
There was not enough fuel to deploy the fleet on routine manuevers and the spare parts problem was the same as with the Air Force.
And so with the Army and Marines.
And you feel that Bush's proposed approprations are out of line?
As it now stands, those requests will only get us back up to peacetime speed; where we should have been all along.

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