Hopefully congress will tell Obama to shove it....

There are literally thousands of other reasons that you should already know about.

The post I responded to. It doesn't get much clearer than that.

just NOT voting for a/the Democrat ... an equally bad and naively myopic choice.

is a tad less important than the SCOTUS, employment gains rather than losses, market gains rather than losses, improving rather than retarding equal rights, and improving rather than retarding civil rights.

Or had you really not forgotten those things?

Where's Obama going to find one billion dollars lying around?



Hint: It ain't blue.

And a growing beast needs more the bigger he gets...so he needs a bigger share or the pie.

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is more money!

Start making all Americans pay a war tax and this shit will stop. Oh! Bring back the draft.

That our Afghan follies are costing us $2 billion a WEEK. So in the wake of the drawdown I say we compromise: $1 billion to the millitary, $99 billion to domestic education and infrastructure.

It's an election year, after all.

Pelosi: We will agree to this emergency request and vote for the military stipend only if the Republicans and the president agree to 100 billion in infrastructure spending. Otherwise the Ukraine will have to hold a bake sale.

I like it.

It is classic flim flam man stuff...bait and switch, triangulation, misdirection...they use them all.

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

This may be the bigger sucker of them all. 57% of the budget goes to the military who cannot even account for the money it is given. How stupid can the administration get?

And spend our money here where it's needed most. If the bear wanders into NATO territory, then consider playing Rambo.

said the naysayers. Nuland was just there handing out cookies after McCain posed for photo-op with the far right fringe Nazi Party in Ukraine before the Coup/Junta/Take Over of their Parliament.

Now Obama will be there in Ukraine just as a friendly visit. Maybe some cash offers with more cookies to pass around. Its very hard not to be cynical.

Obama proposes cuts to the military budget by a third. Decides to wage peace by feeding the world and eliminating poverty... Tells the Pentagon, "you'll still be spending five times what the Russians are spending so figure it out bitches!

so this is 1/5th of one percent of their above-board rake for this year. And they really can't finance this folly with what they already have?

Pretending to be our allies for so many decades. That's how they set you up.

Plus, we gotta protect West Germany from a Soviet invasion.

Is over $ 1.2 TRILLION per year. Lower figures are the result of
dishonest accounting. Veterans health care, for example, is counted
as safety net spending, not military.
Seriously folks, as Eisenhower warned, the militarists are
bankrupting the country.

And you will note that there are close to zero non-militarists
commenting in the media - if there were there would be a
discussion of a de-militarized zone in Central Europe, an idea that
has been kicked around for years, but it anathema to want
to solve all problems with military force or the threat of it.

Classic Obama.

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

2+2=5.

It's a carnival of Doublespeak.

Another "progressive" credential to add to "The List."

A skilled progressive president would get something for this. Like money for roads. Let's see if Pelosi gets something

Enough of this belligerence and imperialism.

The White House unveiled plans for a $1bn initiative to send more of its military to Europe on a temporary basis but stopped short of promising to increase its permanent presence, as some of Washington's allies are seeking. It said the US would review its presence on the continent.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/obama-ukraine-military-assurances-eastern-europe

...so we won't have to fight them over here.

- Because if they get over here, they're afraid we'll join them.

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I feel there are better ways to spend that money in the USA.

Can someone please explain to me why the 40-odd nations of Europe need the United States to defend them from a single nation (Russia) with a population of 144 million people? Is Europe really that incapable of defending itself from a nation with a population four times SMALLER than the rest of the European nations? Europe has double our population and a GDP to match the U.S., so why is it that AMERICAN children have to suffer in inferior schools while their parents drive to work on crumbling roadways to afford their substandard healthcare and avoid starvation, so that the Pentagon can have a big enough budget to defend Europe from aggression?

We are not the worlds policemen.

Its a Military Industrial Empire...it is just as evil as any other Empire....,

insist on being so schizophrenic when it comes to policy??? Now is the time to go "Bulworth" on us, Barack!

But seems to be completely lacking in a mission, or a soul, if you will. He's for stricter carbon standards, and for fracking. He's for major reduction in our overseas involvement, and now wants more money for the Ukraine.

He seems to want to straddle every issue. This is no way to rescue the country from the republicans

and every which way.

That is one of the reasons why I don't start applauding every time he makes a speech that sounds good. I prefer to wait to see what actually transpires.

same gameplan as Social Security: give well-applauded speech on how the GOP will destroy it, then *quietly* do *almost* everything you were accusing them of doing to SS

not EVERYONE has to be fooled into ignoring actions over words for just enough length of time, or get snookered by the libidnous afterglow brought on by simple rhetoric: these speeches are just written to buy time to fatten the Fat Cats

and declaring him the most liberal president in history. I hope this post doesn't make me a racist

party, and on the other side a reactionary religious party

these are just the blackened putrefactive juices of progress's liquefying carcass a la the PRI

except in Pakistan, where they're the SAME party somehow

Many more people heard it than will see this.

Even if Congress did that I would hope they vote NO on this request. Stop military adventurism all over the world and stop aiding militarily a region that is economically in as good as shape as we are and can afford their own protection (against who???). China, this century's next great superpower will invade economically not militarily.

I am so tired of our country acting like it's the world police, especially since we have so many problems to take care of at home. Enough is enough. It's time to bring our troops back home, and let Europe deal with its own problems.