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installing a Lojack on his '86 Camaro. Maybe that's apocryphal. In any case, JDAMs were
funded and stockpiled during the Clinton administration.
During the first Gulf War, less than 10 percent of the bombs and missiles dropped on
Iraq were smart weapons. In our most recent war against Saddam, thanks to (Roger?) Clinton's
JDAMs, that number jumped to over 70 percent. The result: fewer civilian casualties
and less damage to infrastructure that might be needed for the "useless" nation-building that
our troops are now undertaking in Iraq.
Captain Charles O'Brien, a company commander in Iraq, said that the Kosovo experience
has given his soldiers a foundation in "stability support ops" (e.g., not getting killed by
paramilitary forces, suicide bombers, et cetera). Turns out that those peacekeeping operations
in the Balkans that Sean Hannity went to war against are now saving American lives.
Of course, there's a lot more to war than hardware and building on past experience.
Every war brings with it a new set of tactical problems that have to be solved. Solving those
problems speaks directly to the quality of our military leaders. As Don Rumsfeld noted, the
credit for our battle plan in Iraq should go to General Tommy Franks. Franks was appointed
to head the Central Command by the Clinton administration.
And it wasn't just the battle plan. "More important," as Lawrence J. Korb put it, was
that "the military forces that executed that plan so boldly and bravely were for the most part
recruited, trained, and equipped by the Clinton administration."
Who is Lawrence J. Korb? Well, he's currently director of national security studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations. He goes on to say of our swift victory in Iraq: "The fact of
the matter is that most of the credit for the successful military operation should go to the
Clinton administration."
Oh. Korb was also assistant secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration.
Maybe he's the guy who screwed up on the horses.
Let's review some quotes.
Did Clinton gut the military because there was no evidence that countries like Iraq,
Iran, North Korea, and an increasingly aggressive Communist China would represent
serious future threats to America and our friends and allies? No. Rather, it
was because he loathed the military.
-Sean Hannity, Let Freedom Ring