Pentagon has a great sense of humor - proof inside

[Bill]

http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/50_cars/lamborghini_lm002.jpg

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658533_1658530,00.html

"The "Rambo Lambo" was the civilian version of a military vehicle that Lamborghini sold to those beacons of democracy, Saudi Arabia and Libya, among others. The luxurious LM002 appealed to spoiled young Saudi sheiks wanting to cross the sand to survey their oil field holdings. Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, had one, which the U.S. military cheerfully blew up in 2004 during a "test" to simulate the effects of a car bomb."

[Jennifer]

Good for them! When the President stops funding you, as the military, you need to find some way to pay your soldiers to prevent a Military Coups.

[Bill]

There ya go! We gotta do something to keep the troops from rebelling and taking over the country when the next prez wants to cut back.

We'll just let our boys blow up a bunch of those raghead's fancy cars and all will be well.

[Jennifer]

Clinton didn't cut back, he cut off. It has taken us years to rebuild the military into a halfway equipped fighting force after him. If he hadn't cut funding, I bet Iraq would be 100% pacified within days of the war. Not within a decade of the war.

[Linkster]

I thought I remembered Clinton wanting huge funding for the military - not cutbacks - although I remember the GOP saying that he wasnt funding it thats not what the military and the pentagon said:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/22/military.funding/index.html

In response to CNN questions regarding the GOP attacks, a senior military official said the smaller budgets submitted by the administration came "after years of drawdown, at the end of the Cold War and with the full support of Congress and the uniformed military."

In response to a proposal by GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush, who said his administration would provide for $1 billion in pay raises for the military, the official said that the 2001 Clinton budget provides $1.6 billion for an across the board pay raise of 3.7 percent and promises pay increases of 0.5 percent over inflation for the next five years.

[Bill]

It's a pathetic country, and a pathetic philosophy, that's afraid of it's own army, because of funding cuts.

What have we become?

Jennifer, you are a tragic figure. Unknowingly, true, but tragic nonetheless.