George Bush slips further away from the reality based world as he proposes cuts to Army Reserves and threatens Iran with military action.

President Bush will use his new budget to propose cutting the size of the Army Reserve to its lowest level in three decades and stripping up to $4 billion from two fighter aircraft programs.

Under the plan, the authorized troop strength of the Army Reserve would drop from 205,000 — the current number of slots it is allowed — to 188,000, the actual number of soldiers it had at the end of 2005. Because of recruiting and other problems, the Army Reserve has been unable to fill its ranks to its authorized level.

Is this not one of the clearest signs of a man with a disconnected sense of reality? We have shown what our limitations are to the enemy by falling short in Iraq. Now this fool wants to further weaken us by reducing the size of our fighting force just when there are countries out there looking to call our bluff.

I am not an advocate of a military solution to the situation in Iran but it does our bargaining position no good for the world to know that we are reducing our potential troop strength.

And where does that leave our homeland security situation? Will we have the resources to defend ourselves if Bush manages to embolden the enemy enough to actually attack us again in our own backyard? I highly doubt it.