Getting rid of the troops

The news today is that Bush is planning to cut the size of the Army Reserve and the National Guard. It appears the reasons are two-fold. 1) They can't recruit enough people to maintain the current size and 2) they can't afford the cost when they are paying for a war while giving tax cuts to the wealthy.

Does it strike anyone else as odd that the "war" president is cutting the size of our military when we are in the midst of a war?