Mission Accomplished: How Bush and Republicans Destroyed the Military

Progressive Daily Beacon Opinion Piece

When the military wasn't able to reach its recruiting goals the Bush administration did what it always does: adjust numbers to make them look good politically. When the reign of Bush the Second is over, the American people can count on government auditors discovering ENRON-like accounting "errors" in everything from the deficit to the unemployment rate to, more than likely, the number of soldiers who have died in the administration's various wars. All -- and people can bet the mortgage on this -- will have been duly altered to make Bush and Republicans look good. They've done the same thing with military recruiting. They couldn't reach the goals required to actually keep the military functioning, so they lowered the bar to make it look good politically.

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