It's getting old hearing Democrats say that the reason we should pull out of Iraq is because the conflict there is straining our military. They constantly say the military is stretched too thin.

One statistic that should be kept in mind when we hear that is that in 1993 President Bill Clinton, as one of his first acts in office, cut the size of all three branches of the armed services by one-third to one half. The active army which had been sized at 18 divisions during operation Desert Storm was reduced to 10 divisions by the mid-1990s.