"Our military is low on parts, pay and morale. If called on by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the army would have to report 'not ready for duty, sir.'"
RezzziDUNCE George W. Bush, as candiDUNCE for RezzziDUNCE in 2000
"What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made... The military is in trouble today."
VP candidate Dick "Dick" (Dick) DICK Cheney, 2000
True to their word, they fixed things right up:
MILITARY UPRISING: Bush's decision to cut tour lengths comes after months and months of warnings from his top military advisers. "The current demand for our forces exceeds the sustainable supply," Army Chief of Staff George Casey said back in September. This week, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen noted he was "very public for many months that we need to get off 15 month deployments as fast as we can." In a recent meeting in the Pentagon, top military leaders "told President Bush they are worried about the Iraq war's mounting strain on troops and their families." While a step forward in the right direction, Bush's announcement today is more likely forced due to necessity, Ilan Goldenberg of the National Security Network observed. "The military is so strained, the president really didn't have a choice," he said. As Colin Powell presciently observed in July 2007, "[T]hey probably can't keep this up at this level past the middle of next year, I would guess. This is a tremendous burden on our troops."
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Their heads should be on pikes.
Except that in Cheney's case, he'd keep right on talking. Which would be creepy.
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