>From: eric dorkin <eric_dorkin at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bill Clinton, Rumsfeld fan
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
>
>If (and I mean 'if') leaner meant less money to the military, would that be
>bad.....
>
>Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:[Good ol' Bill -- he doesn't
>just get blow jobs, he gives 'em. From a
>Washington Post interview with Clinton:]
>
>"In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power
>we
>are now" in a few decades, he [Bill Clinton] said, pointing to the growth
>of
>China's economy and the growing economic strength of the European Union.
>...
>
>But he said he did not want to be misunderstood. "I never advocated that we
>not have the strongest military in the world. . . . I don't think a single
>soul has thought I was advocating scaling back our military."
>
>During the phone call [interview], the former president praised Rumsfeld
>for
>instituting reforms at the Pentagon designed to produce a leaner, more
>flexible military force. "I hope that when the smoke clears from the Iraq
>thing, some more attention would be given to Rumsfeld's ideas," he said.
>...
>
>
>
>Carl
>
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