[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Windmills Not Weapons - Say NO to NDAA

Tue May 20 17:25:50 EDT 2014

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Subject: 	Windmills Not Weapons - Say NO to NDAA
Date: 	Tue, 20 May 2014 07:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	End Wars and Occupations Issue Team <End-war at pdamerica.org>
Reply-To: 	End-war at pdamerica.org
To: 	davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net

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Dear David,

Today, Congress begins debate on a *$601 billion Pentagon budget* for 
FY2015 
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  This is comprised of a "base budget" of $495.6 billion and another 
$105 billion for two Pentagon slush funds: $26 billion for the "OGSI" 
and $79 billion for the "OCO" (formerly called a "war supplemental" but 
now spent on anything up to and including off-budget $450 million F-35 
warplanes 
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*Time for a reality check!*

In 1967, *Martin Luther King* 
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called Vietnam War spending a "*demonic destructive suction tube*" that 
left America's anti-poverty program "broken and eviscerated, as if it 
were some idle plaything of a society gone mad on war."  Adjusted for 
inflation, he was talking about a $547 billion military budget.  This 
year's military budget is *10% higher than that*, taking up *57% of 
federal tax revenues*.

Even during the Cold War, the Pentagon budget was cut to $386 billion in 
1954 and 1975, after the Korean and Vietnam Wars ended. *Why should the 
end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars be any different?*  If anything, we 
should be able to cut much further today.  In 1989, as the Cold War 
ended, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Assistant Secretary 
Larry Korb recommended a*$267 billion military budget 
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less than half what Congress is set to rubber-stamp This week (all 
amounts adjusted for inflation).

*TAKE ACTION here 
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and please call your Member of Congress, tell them to vote NO on the 
FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act and demand that we return to a 
peacetime military budget.*

*Returning to a peacetime military budget* would release trillions of 
dollars to invest and create jobs in education, healthcare and the vital 
transition to a clean energy economy.  It offers the best *hope for the 
future *of America and the world, but it's up to us to let our 
Representatives in Congress know that we *understand what's at stake* 
and that we *expect them to act*.

For more context on the FY2015 NDAA, please read Sandy Davies' article 
on "Returning to a Peacetime Military Budget*."* 
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/*Peace!*/

The End War and Occupations Team
Sandy Davies, Marc Levin, Sally Moos, Robert Hansen, and Rich Gardner

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