re: Is the Liberal "Base" excited that Obama Declared War on ISIS?

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He gutted the CIA with his budget cuts.

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Honestly, that started in the late 1970s.

However, the significant cuts during the Clinton Administration, which led to the mythical, non-existent "surplus" were primarily in the Department of Defense, and in particular, the Army - the organization which would ultimately bear the lion's share of work in the GWOT (tm).