First off, your "Link" purporting to Dick Cheney cutting military spending doesn't seem to work. Could be my computer ... I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe it's time for a history lesson.... until your Chairman Obamao tries to re-write it:

The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961.
However it took about three decades until the Wall was torn down.
Several times people in the Communist countries rised up against the Communist system but they failed.
The victims of the uprisings against the Communist dictatorship in Berlin 1953, Budapest 1956 or Prague 1968 will never been forgotten.
In 1989 the first free labor union was founded in the communist Poland. The end of the communist system had begun.
The Soviet Union could control their satellites yet but with the new leader Gorbatshov their politics changed in 1984.
Gorbatshov's reforms, Perestroika and Glasnost should renew the stalinistic system in the Soviet Union but not replace the communist system.
The reforms in the Soviet Union also had its effects on the other communist countries, especially in Poland and Hungary.
On August 23, 1989 Hungary opened the iron curtain to Austria.
Months before East German tourists used their chance to escape to Austria from Hungary and in September 1989 more than 13 000 East German escaped via Hungary within three days. It was the first mass exodus of East Germans after the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Mass demonstrations against the government and the system in East Germany begun at the end of September and took until November 1989.
Erich Honecker, East Germany's head of state, had to resign on October 18, 1989.
The new governement prepared a new law to lift the travel restrictions for East German citizen.
At 06.53 pm on November 9, 1989 a member of the new East German government was asked at a press conference when the new East German travel law comes into force.
He answered: "Well, as far as I can see, ... straightaway, immediately."
Thousands of East Berliners went to the border crossings. At Bornholmer Strasse the people demanded to open the border and at 10.30 pm the border was opened there.
That moment meant the end of the Berlin Wall.
Soon other border crossing points opened the gates to the West
In that night the deadly border was opened by East Germans peacefully.

Bibliography:
The Cold War by Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing
The Berlin Wall by Thomas Fleming
Leipziger Demotagebuch by Wolfgang Schneider

http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/fall-of-berlinwall.htm

Gorbachev's Glasnost

During an interview in 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev is quoted as saying "I detest lies" (1.). It was this yearning for the truth that lead him to introduce the policy of glasnost literally openness in English. The liberal press exploited this leeway and continuously challenged its boundaries.

The critical re-examination of history glasnost fostered was unprecedented in the USSR and affected every chapter of the country's history. Khrushchev had previously criticised Stalin however he only let out partial truths to help his own career. The difference this time was that a liberal press had been allowed to grow and flourish within the USSR. Ogonyuk a popular current affairs magazine had a circulation of three million by 1990. It was in newspapers, television shows and magazines like Ogonyuk that the USSR's past was examined and the real truth revealed to the Soviet people. The liberal press did not take long to turn its attention to the slowness in reform of the Soviet system.

Glasnost had broken free from its masters by 1989 and began to be used to criticise its creator Gorbachev. Anything was now fair game. The abolition of the Communist Party's leading role, the failure of perestroika and multi party democracy were openly discussed in the Soviet media. These ideas were undreamt of even a couple of years earlier. The turning point for glasnost was the Chernobyl nuclear diaster in 1986. Soviet authorities initially tried to cover up the catastrophe and remained silent for 48 hours. The silence was followed by complete honesty and unparallel information of the like that had never been seen in the USSR before. After Chernobyl environmental concerns became a favourite topic of the liberal press. The turning of Central Asia into a desert by diverting rivers to irrigate cotton plantations were just one example that shocked the nation. The people could not believe the incompetence of their Communist Party planners. As the truth came out piece by piece the Soviet people became more and more angry at their Communist rulers.

Glasnost allowed for the first time the facts to be presented. The Soviet people soon realised why so much had been kept from them for so long. The USSR was in a mess but for the first time the people knew the truth and were demanding answers.

Footnotes

(1.) Time Magazine 4 June 1990 page 19
(2.) Goodbye to the USSR page 101

http://www.historyorb.com/russia/glasnost.shtml

So, to recap the history lesson:

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union broke up, there was not as much need for "Cheney" to spend as much as the previous year of defense (military) spending. This cut in military spending led to a "peace dividend" in 1990 which was a direct result of Reagan's strategic initiatives and policies regarding the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, this "peace dividend", as all surpluses, was squandered by a democrat controlled congress (it's congress that writes and votes on budgets, doncha' know... the President or now usurper 'signs off' on the proposed budgets submitted by Congress). It took a republican controlled congress winning in 1994 midterm elections to get Clinton under control (albeit reluctantly).

Only someone suffering from BDS (or CDS) could complain both about spending too much for the military and cutting military spending when a war ('cold war' in this case) is won.

Oh, and I confidently predict that this November there will not be a "blue seat" won. In fact, don't be surprised if quite a few "D" candidates come in THIRD.... much like Clinton did in Utah in 1992.