60 Minutes

[Royal Tiger]

I watched 60 Minutes last night because I wanted to see the who Ashlee Simpson fiasco (which the story that they hyped as exclusive and behind the scenes sucked) and they led off with a story on Iraq and the troops using unarmored HumVees. They mentioned 5 times that the current Defense Budget is over $400 million and that the troops have to make improvised armor for their vehicles. The story never mentioned that defense spending has gone UP every year under Bush after going DOWN every year under clinton. You don't call AM General and order 5000 armored HumVees and expect them to show up in 4 weeks. This is another example of bad desion cuts under clinton, that the media likes to throw at Bush. I have been in the Air Force Reserve sionce 1994 and was activated from 11/01 to 04/03. We recieved better and newer equipment in 2002 and more of it then ever before in my military career. Including new rifles, armored HumVees, AN/PVS-4's, and much more. Funny the extremely left leaning 60 minutes failed to point that out.