BUSH DEFENDS DEFENSE SPENDING

On the attack on defense

Washington (FOX News) - President Bush today went on the offensive defending his budget from critics who have attacked his plan for increased defense spending.

Siting the protracted “War on Terror,” Bush defended the lack of results by blaming the need for more spending. In remarks eerily reminiscent of Democratic claims of the 1960's War on Poverty, Bush declared that the problem was, “complex and challenging,” and would require, “even more money, then more yet.”

Denying that he was simply throwing money at the problem, as Senate Minority Leader Harry Ried has claimed, the President said that he was given all necessary authority to do so when the Senate voted for the USA Act in 2001.

Disputing allegations that the War on Terror and the Occupation of Iraq were in fact two different things Bush said, “Nobody denied that saving South Vietnam and defeating Communism in southeast Asia were two different things back in the ‘70s!”

Referring to a different war the President appealed to the public’s sense of patriotism.

“In the ‘Great War.’ when America had to climb in ships and travel half-way around the world to defeat fascism, naziism and a different kind of terrorism, against the Jews, nobody complained about defense spending. Back then to criticize the president or his budget in the time of war was know as the actions of traitors, not good Americans!” Bush declared to a round of applause from the depleted stock of reservists hastily assembled on short notice in a helicopter hanger at little used Chipotwaka Air Base in Maryland.

“Criticizing a defense budget was as good as giving medicine and cold drinks to the enemy. Well, not this time, not with this president!”


Mr. Bush has steadily resisted comparisons with other wars by his critics preferring to mention them only in his own speeches. Lately however Democrats have begun to make uncomfortable comparisons.

Democratic Ohio Senator, and alleged former Black Panther, Barack Bin Osama recently declared that, “We invaded France in June of 1944 and Hitler was dead and the Nazi’s were wiped out by April 1945. Instead of going AWOL maybe Bush should have stayed in the Air Force, he might have learned something about prosecuting a war!”

Liberal Senator Ted Kennedy displaying his shopworn lack of sympathy for Americans said on the floor of congress last week, “Within a very short time, more men and women will have been killed in Iraq then died in the attacks on 9/11. What have we gained?”

The President continued to attack his critics defending his proposal saying that, “We must defend America against those who would attack us. The defense of America must come at all costs.”

He also claimed that those who attacked his budget were soft on defense and worse.

“While my war is not at all like Viet Nam, just because we don’t have body counts doesn’t mean were not winning! And just like Viet Nam, those who criticize this war are the same kind of cowards, traitors and communists of that period, today!”

Bush concluded his comments saying, “I remember one of the proudest expressions of freedom any American could make back in the 1970's and it is just as true today as it was then, ‘America, love it or leave it!’”