Pentagon plans $80 billion war budget despite Afghan withdrawal

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Pentagon plans $80 billion war budget despite Afghan withdrawal
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 14:17 EST

The Pentagon has proposed $79.4 billion in war funding in 2015 even though most or all US troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year, officials said Tuesday.

“Overseas contingency operations” funds are separate from the Pentagon’s “base” budget and have been used to finance wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and counter-terrorism efforts elsewhere for more than a decade.

After President Barack Obama came into office, his deputies vowed to shift the war spending back into the Pentagon’s main budget.

But the Defense Department’s proposed budget released Tuesday calls for keeping war funding at nearly the same level in fiscal year 2015 as in the current year.



unhappycamper comment: Another $80 billion dollars down the shithole.

Why the fuck must we spend our tax dollars for this crap?