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"Peace" Prize
Winner Obama Demands Record War Chest
Second year running Obama demands more for illegal
wars
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| Steve
Watson & Paul Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 |
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Peace Prize winner Barack Obama is to request a record defense
budget for 2011 in order to expand the war in Afghanistan and
continue the conflict in Iraq, according to military officials.
Obama will ask Congress for an extra $33 billion in addition
to a record breaking $708 billion to swell the Defense Department's
coffers next year.
Defense spending will top $700 billion for the first time military
sources revealed
to the AP, after commanders were briefed on the
figures, in addition to projected budgets through 2015, earlier
this week at the Pentagon.
The bulk of the war chest will be used to acquire more Predator
and Reaper pilotless drones, which have been used in missile
attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The additional war dollars will also go towards funding the
deployment
of close to 40,000 new troops Obama ordered to
Afghanistan last year.
The president's Quadrennial Defense Review will be officially
delivered to Congress on February 1st.
It will mark the
second year running that the president has significantly
increased war spending.
Obama’s election promise to bring “change”
to Washington and reverse the juggernaut of rampant militarism,
endless wars and occupations has proven to be nothing more than
a cruel hoax.
Obama has beefed the U.S. military role in Pakistan beyond
that pursued by the Bush administration and expanded the covert
war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside Pakistan,
with an increase in missile attacks by drone aircraft.
Despite public pronouncements by Obama that a plan to withdraw
U.S. troops from Iraq is in progress, the details of the agreement
actually establish
a permanent presence of a sizable occupying force
in perpetuity.
Obama has also promised that U.S. forces will begin to withdraw
from Afghanistan in July 2011, but his defense advisers have
set no time limit for the war there.
The combined number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has now
reached a higher level under Obama than existed under the Bush
administration at any point between 2003 and 2008.
At the height of the Bush administration’s 2007 “surge”
in Iraq, there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000
in Iraq, a total of 186,000.
According to DoD figures cited by The
Washington Post last October, there are now around
189,000 and rising deployed in total. There are now 68,000 troops
in Afghanistan, over double the amount deployed there when Bush
left office.
As the Post points out, these figures are also misleadingly
low because the number of support troops, at least 13,000, has
simply not been announced or noted, despite their authorization
and deployment by the Pentagon.
The perpetuation of the illegal occupation of Iraq, the expansion
of the fallacy based war in Afghanistan, as well as increased
faceless attacks in Pakistan, heightened belligerence towards
Iran and refusal to address a strategy to end the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict sum up Obama’s foreign policy during his first
year in office.
How in anyone’s mind can such behavior constitute a move
towards peace?
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