If we can increase the number of active duty military personnel, we have no need for Blackwater, KBR and the other fabulously expensive private contractors. There's your savings right there.

There are probably other cuts they can make. They spent millions trying to develop a "gay" bomb. They may have other stupid projects underway which can be eliminated. Surely it's time to quit handing out bucketloads of cash in Iraq.

I don't see either of their positions as contradicting each other.