Franken Frankly Fudges Facts
Peter Huessy:
"Al Franken has written a new fairy tale about the Clinton administration's record on defense. His new book supposedly outlines whoppers told by conservatives. But it only serves to highlight what a big idiot Franken himself is. He starts with the nutty idea that because the United States won the war in Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002 with a defense establishment inherited from the Clinton administration, it was "Clinton's military" and thus the democrats should get credit for toppling the Taliban. Neither reason nor logic are high on the list of characteristics one would associate with Franken, and this bit of nonsense doesn't do anything to change that reputation. The military inherited by the Bush administration was not just the Clinton administration's legacy. A Republican Congress added some $75 billion in additional resources to the Clinton defense budgets between 1995-2000, funds that prevented the development of serious readiness problems within the U.S. military, especially given the deployment of U.S. forces overseas during the 1993-2000 period — a total of 44 times."
"...despite the use of over a dozen Harvard University research assistants, (Franken) can't even get the simple things right. In his book he asserts that the first proposed Bush budget didn't even take affect until October 1, 2002, when in fact the Bush administration proposed an immediate supplemental for fiscal 2001, the year starting October 1, 2000, at the end of the Clinton administration, in order to begin the process of providing necessary and additional funds for the Defense Department."
Peter Huessy:
"Al Franken has written a new fairy tale about the Clinton administration's record on defense. His new book supposedly outlines whoppers told by conservatives. But it only serves to highlight what a big idiot Franken himself is. He starts with the nutty idea that because the United States won the war in Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002 with a defense establishment inherited from the Clinton administration, it was "Clinton's military" and thus the democrats should get credit for toppling the Taliban. Neither reason nor logic are high on the list of characteristics one would associate with Franken, and this bit of nonsense doesn't do anything to change that reputation. The military inherited by the Bush administration was not just the Clinton administration's legacy. A Republican Congress added some $75 billion in additional resources to the Clinton defense budgets between 1995-2000, funds that prevented the development of serious readiness problems within the U.S. military, especially given the deployment of U.S. forces overseas during the 1993-2000 period — a total of 44 times."
"...despite the use of over a dozen Harvard University research assistants, (Franken) can't even get the simple things right. In his book he asserts that the first proposed Bush budget didn't even take affect until October 1, 2002, when in fact the Bush administration proposed an immediate supplemental for fiscal 2001, the year starting October 1, 2000, at the end of the Clinton administration, in order to begin the process of providing necessary and additional funds for the Defense Department."
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