[Peace-discuss] How many Democrats will stand up to Obama's war?

[C. G. Estabrook]

	How Many Democrats Will Stand Up to Obama's
	Bloated Military Budget and $75 Billion More in War Spending?
	By Jeremy Scahill, April 9

Obama wants billions more for the Iraq/Afghanistan wars on top of a US military 
budget that already surpasses Bush-era spending by $21 billion. Where is the 
resistance?

Much of the media attention this week on President Obama’s new military budget 
has put forward a false narrative wherein Obama is somehow taking his 
socialist/pacifist sledgehammer to the Pentagon’s war machine and blasting it to 
smithereens. Republicans have charged that Obama is endangering the country’s 
security, while the Democratic leadership has hailed it as the dawn of a new era 
in responsible spending priorities. Part of this narrative portrays Defense 
Secretary Robert Gates as standing up to the war industry, particularly military 
contractors.

The reality is that all of this is false.

Here is an undeniable fact: Obama is substantially increasing US military 
spending, by at least $21 billion from Bush-era levels, including a significant 
ratcheting up of Afghanistan war spending, as well as more money for unmanned 
attack drones, which are increasingly being used in attacks on Pakistan...

Full article at
http://rebelreports.com/post/94406620/how-many-democrats-will-stand-up-to-obamas-bloated