Rudy hammers Clinton Defense and Intelligence cuts

ABC News Blog:

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"What Bill Clinton did to you in the 1990's most Americans don't even know. They don't even know the worst thing that he did," said Giuliani.

"The worst thing that he did was not any of the stuff that got all the attention and sometimes exaggeration and who knows what. The worst thing he did was to cut our military and intelligence budgets. That is the worst thing he did."

Noting that Clinton "slashed" both the agencies' budgets, Giuliani charged that the former president had his "head in the sand."

"And now as I said, I don't pretend that he (Clinton) could predict September the 11th. People are not prophets, even presidents," said Giuliani. "But he did have his head in the sand. He was cutting those military budgets and intelligence budgets while Islamic terrorists were killing Americans."

"Over 500 before September 11th. The first attack on America was not September 11th, it was 1993. And then Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, and then Kenya, and then Tanzania, and then the attack on the USS Cole, to which we didn't even respond. So let's not go back to that."

Ending his Clinton focus, Giuliani noted, "Hillary Clinton really wants to take you in reverse to the 1990's. She thought things were wonderful in the 1990's and there was only one thing missing in the 1990's and it was the socialized medicine she couldn't do for us. So now she wants to take us back to the 1990's and give us the socialized medicine too. Let's not let her do that."


It is about time some Republican raised this issue. the Democrats have been whining about an overstretched military for years now, but they never took responsibility for cutting that military to the point that it would be overstretched by two small regional wars. The tone of the ABC report suggest the writer thought Giuliani was being inaccurate by using the word "slashed" which is put in scare quotes. The fact is Clinton did cut the intelligence and defense budgets too much leading to shortfalls in both areas and if Hillary is going to run on that record she should be held to account for it.

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