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

[John W.]

I'm thinking that if all of us who know The Truth just write MORE WORDS, our
fellow citizens who choose to believe lies will eventually come around.



On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

       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
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