Interesting artifact re: Clinton "gutting" the military [View All]

found this press release from Feb. 7, 2000, issued by the Center for Defense Information, which bills itself as a collection of "military experts":

www.cdi.org/press/press_releases/budget020700.html

In it, they criticize Clinton's proposed budget for the Pentagon, because of its $15 billion increase. (This, on top of a $112 billion increase the year before.) Laments the group's budget analyst, "Not a single major weapons program has been eliminated, or even seen its funding reduced...and all of them are designed to fight World War III against a nonexistent enemy. We simply don't need them, nor, in the long run, can we afford them."

So, apparently Clinton not only not gut the military, as the legions of dittoheads assert, but he actually caught heat for increasing its funding.