Posted on http://www.washingtonsblog.com/ March 30, 2014 by JimQ http://amputd.com/media/201303/Page10.jpg
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“War
is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most
profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.
It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses
in lives.” – General Smedley Butler – War is a Racket
The United States spends more per year on war than the next
thirteen countries combined. That imminent attack by the Iranian navy may be
overblown. Our generals blather about the threat from China, that spends 18% of
our budget, and threat from Russia, that spends 7% of our budget. The
mainstream media articles and fear mongering drivel from our corrupt bought off
politicians are nothing but propaganda designed to keep the billions flowing to
the arms peddlers like Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, and
the rest of the dealers of death. Politicians who have been bribed with decades
of “political contributions” won’t even vote to get rid of weapons programs the
military no longer wants.
It’s interesting how politicians are able to tell citizens
they are only spending $520 billion per year on war when the true figure is
$820 billion. Obama’s FY15 budget says we are going to spend $520 billion. He
conveniently leaves out the cost of ongoing wars and the cost of past wars. We
are still spending over $100 billion per year on our ongoing wars in
Afghanistan, occupation in Iraq, and provocations in Libya and Syria. We are
also providing military support of $50 billion to Egypt, Israel and dozens of
other countries around the globe. Lastly, we spend over $150 billion per year
on veterans of past wars. Our beloved leaders move that expense to another line
item in the budget and pretend it is not a cost of war. The American people
have short attention spans and once our wars of choice aren’t on the nightly
news anymore they think it’s over. Tell that to the families of the 7,100 dead
soldiers killed in our Middle East invasions, along with the 50,000 badly
wounded servicemen, and the thousands more mentally damaged by the ordeal. The
cost of war goes on forever. Government obfuscation does not fool anyone with
critical thinking skills.
The dogs of war – McCain and Graham,
along with hundreds of other war mongering pricks in Congress claim Obama is
some pacifist attempting to dismantle our beloved military. These traitors of
truth evidently can’t understand math or charts. Bush’s last war budget was
$731 billion. The Iraq war has ceased and Obama is still spending $820 billion
per year on war. Does it sound like the military is being gutted? Are we more
in danger of being attacked by another country today than we were in 1999? That
is the question that should be asked. They call it the DEFENSE budget because
it is supposed to be used to defend us from attack, not to bully countries
throughout the world and attack sovereign countries who are no threat to our
security. Isn’t it convenient that the U.S. provoked overthrow of the
democratically elected government of the Ukraine has initiated a new media
created “Cold War”?
The country was sufficiently
defended with a war budget of $333 billion in 1999. No one invaded us or
threatened to invade. The Cold War was long over. The military industrial
complex needed a 9/11 to revitalize their profits. The neo-con/military
industrial complex created War on Terror has opened the door to never ending
wars of choice around the world with no consent or approval from the people.
War spending grew to $879 billion by 2011, a 164% increase in 13 years. Over
this same time frame GDP grew by 74%. Does this sound like the military has
been short changed? The fear mongering neo-cons and conservative websites are
nothing but nattering nabobs of nonsense. Even the hint of slowing in spending
on our empire building creates an urgency for a new evil enemy. Is it a
coincidence that Vlad Putin has now emerged as an existential threat to our
freedom and liberty according to the den of vipers in Congress, the military
industrial complex, and the corporate media mouthpieces?
The war mongers will continue to use
propaganda and misinformation to convince you we are in danger if the war
budget is cut by 2%. The truth is that we need to cut the military by 50%, stop
trying to operate a world empire, and withdrawal our troops from Germany,
Japan, and the dozens of other countries around the globe. We need to stop
handing billions of dollars we don’t have to Israel, Egypt and dozens of other
countries so they can buy arms from our arms dealers. We are the cause of all
the war and violence in this world. The job of our military is to protect our
borders, not to police the world. Hubris, arrogance, and overreach, financed by
central bank created debt, is how empires die.
“As
many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot
stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk
about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying
the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling
domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American
empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We
cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a
nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind
eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world
combined.” – Ron Paul
Understand where they are spending
your money:
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