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05/23/2004 Archived Entry: "Sens. Clinton, Graham call for larger U.S. military"

Posted by steve @ 05:23 PM EST [Link]

I KNEW I HAD A COUPLE OF DRINKS LAST NIGHT: So I'm wondering if there's some Crown Royal still swirling around in my noggin as I write this. Sen. Hillary Clinton today called for a larger U.S. military. Yup, you can see why I thought maybe I over did it last night.

"A number of us have been sounding this alarm," Clinton told the TV show Fox News Sunday. "We have to face the fact we need a larger active-duty military. We cannot continue to stretch our troops, both active-duty, Guard and Reserve, to the breaking point, which is what we're doing now."

The irony, of course, is that under her husband's administration, the U.S. military shrank as part of Clinton-Gore's campaign to reduce the size of government. Rather than trim the number of civil servants, they made their largest gain by not replacing soldiers leaving the ranks. Ms. Clinton didn't bother to point that out.

Read on.