Consortiumnews.com: Obama's Warfare Budget

Obama's Warfare Budget

By Sherwood Ross
May 20, 2009


Although the United States is not in imminent danger of attack from any country, President Barack Obama’s first budget further expands the Pentagon’s already dominant global operations.

Not even the prospect of a $3.1 trillion combined budget deficit for this year and next deters him. Let them chop the budget for black colleges and police officer death benefits, the Pentagon and its contractors continue to feast at the champagne-and-caviar table.

It’s not as though for eight years George W. Bush’s Pentagon hadn’t nearly outspent the rest of the world combined on designing deadlier weapons and employing them in illegal wars.

Obama’s new $664 billion Pentagon budget is $21 billion higher (4 percent) than the final Bush budget. It includes $65 billion for Afghanistan and $61 billion for Iraq. Why?

Well, here’s what Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Naval War College on April 17: “The U.S. must not take its current dominance for granted.”

But Gates also said, the U.S. “battle fleet, by one estimate, is still larger than the next 13 navies combined -- and 11 of those 13 navies are U.S. allies or partners.”

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