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Originally Posted by gideongallery
well the 59 documented errors were not nitpicked errors but big ones like
Michael Moore states, ?While Bush was busy taking care of his base and professing his love for our troops, he proposed cutting combat soldiers' pay by 33% and assistance to their families by 60%.?
when in fact
Cash compensation for active duty service members increased by some 25 percent between 1999 and 2005, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
he did this by ignoring the increase in base pay which was designed to offset the cut in combat pay (BTW which was done because it resulted in military personal getting a serious pay cut when the were on duty recovering from a war injury).
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You are right, sort of. Moore leaves out part of the facts to make his case more compelling. The 33% was for imminent danger pay and the 60% was for family separation allowances. Taking his quote word for word would make you think that they cut pay to soldiers when in actuality they just cut parts of it down.
He didn't pull the facts out of his ass though, he got it from an Army Times article in 2003.
But it does bring up a point of how much we pay our soldiers. We pay mercenaries from other countries between 5-15 times as much as our soldiers. I've been reading a book called Blackwater that is really good and details how it all works.