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Obama’s War Machine Needs $800 Billion For 2009
After Iraq “withdrawal,” tens of thousands of U.S. troops will remain
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Barack Obama’s election promise to bring “change” to Washington and reverse the juggernaut of the Bush war machine has proven to be nothing more than a cruel hoax, emphasized by his recent actions on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and his latest demand for a total of around $800 billion in war funds and subsidiary costs just to cover the rest of 2009.
“According to the US defense officials, Obama needs USD 75.5 billion for 2009 to cover the cost of the additional troops deployed in to Afghanistan this year and an another USD 130 billion for the rest of fiscal 2009,” reports Press TV.
An additional $534 billion is required for the Defense Department, added to another figure of $65.9 billion that has already been approved by Congress, bringing the total figure to over $805 billion dollars.
As Wikipedia states, “The military budget is that portion of the United States discretionary federal budget that is allocated to the Department of Defense. This military budget pays the salaries, training, and healthcare of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new equipment. The budget funds all branches of the U.S. military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.”
We can be assured that the vast majority of the $805 billion is going into the war chest because seperate programs such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance and production are included in the Department of Energy budget. Every single component bar one of the DoD budget is up 5-10% compared to 2008, with the budget for “military construction” increasing by a whopping 19.1%.
The most expensive programs in the DoD budget are things like missile defense, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F-22 Raptor, as well as the DDG 1000 Destroyer, the F/A-18E/F Hornet and the V-22 Osprey. These are all war-related programs, so mainstream media reports that a mere $200 billion war chest is being demanded do not include the cost of any of these programs which form part of the $500 billion-plus DoD budget.
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The demand to refill the war coffers arrives in the same month as Obama’s announcement to send at least 17,000, and eventually perhaps as many as 30,000, extra troops to Afghanistan – over seven years after the U.S. invaded in 2001.
Obama has also recently 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,” according to the New York TImes, with an increase in missile attacks by drone aircraft.
All this within just one month of Obama’s inauguration on the back of an election campaign won on the basis of changing the warmongering policies of the Bush administration!
Meanwhile, 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.
Despite his pre-election promises it’s interesting to note that the new WhiteHouse.gov website, in the “foreign policy” section, contains nothing whatsoever about Obama’s plans for Iraq. That’s probably because he will simply be following the exact same course undertaken by the Bush administration in publicly stating an intention for withdrawal while privately ensuring that tens of thousands of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq in perpetuity for the reason they were sent there in the first place – to safeguard a U.S. geopolitical foothold in the middle east and maintain control over whatever puppet government is installed.
As Chris Floyd points out in his article today, “The hypocrisy – the literally murderous hypocrisy – of claiming that this plan “leaves Iraq to its people and responsibly ends this war,” as Obama asserted in his State of the Union speech, is sickening. It does no such thing, and he knows it.”
In reality, after the “withdrawal” of U.S. troops in 19 months, “Mr. Obama plans to leave behind a “residual force” of tens of thousands of troops to continue training Iraqi security forces, hunt down foreign terrorist cells and guard American institutions,” reported the New York Times.
A senior military officer spelled it out more plainly to the Los Angeles TImes, “‘When President Obama said we were going to get out within 16 months, some people heard, ‘get out,’ and everyone’s gone. But that is not going to happen,’ the officer said.”
“By implementing his war continuation plan, Obama will complete the work of Bush and his militarist clique,” writes Floyd, and in doing so send, “an apparently endless stream of American troops to die — and, in even greater numbers, to kill — in a criminal action that has helped bankrupt our own country while sending waves of violent instability and extremism around the world. It will further enfilth a cesspool of corruption and war profiteering that has already reached staggering, world-historical proportions.”
The ultimate course for Iraq is something closer to what Obama’s presidential rival John McCain conceded – that U.S. troops will remain in the country for 100 years and probably beyond, long after Barack Obama leaves the White House and long after his empty mantra of “change” washes away like a footprint in the sand.
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February 26th, 2009 at 6:34 am
American’s were sold on a change… a move away from war, and a economically viable America.
There was change, sadly, not for what the American people wanted, but a change from what American’s were sold, what we were told.
800 billion for the war machine, we might as well just line up a couple thousand good men, kill them in cold blood, and throw our money up into the air… that’s all that will happen with these wars.
Terrorism is created by the NWO to create a level of fear and with that control, everyone via fear of these boogeymen.
So, we could pay for the bank bailout, by stopping the war effort… American women and men would not die for created wars… and no taxes would have to be raised. Why aren’t any American representatives supporting something as common sense as this, other than Ron Paul, of course?
Social Viability Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
“we might as well just line up a couple thousand good men, kill them in cold blood, and throw our money up into the air”
No! You can’t just throw the money up in the air. You have to give it to the corporations of the Military Industrial Complex.
THEN they will be satisfied and stop lobbying to the politicians to keep fighting wars…
…which is, incidentally, why more “American representatives” don’t support such obvious sense. Their careers depend on the campaign contributions of the corrupt degenerate warmongers that they grant massive military contracts to.
Criminals run your society and all you have to do to dissolve their power is stop using their money. The money is the control mechanism that keeps all of us economically enslaved. When we stop using the currency that they supply to us, the Federal Reserve will dissolve and the politicians they employ will be out of a job.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
February 26th, 2009 at 6:50 am
OBAMA IS A OFF SPRING OF THE FATHER OF LIES.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:01 am
when this entity of darkness says ” yes we can” ,…he is saying yes WE, the elite families of world power and the banksters, CAN take over the world with OUR” “service” ….to our country!!
..and YES u gotta BELIEVE”"!…because they’ve been running this script on us for so long…
and YES ,they will CHANGE”"our very way of life!
question, no offense to anyone out there…but would you, or anyone, let a person with downs syndrome pilot your airplane? equal opportunity employment right?…think not
YO !!! mentally ill inbred people are controlling the direction of this world….
its time we take our power back.
time is saying…im waiting…im still waiting
YES WE CAN DISSENT!
YES WE CAN CHOOSE NOT TO PARTICIPATE !
YES!!! WE MUST EXPOSE THESE CROOKS!
THIS IS OUR TIME HUMANITY…
BELIEVE!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Dudes, CNN says 200 billion?
admin Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
CNN failed to include the DoD budget – which has itself increased by around 10 per cent on last year’s figures. I have added information on what the DoD budget gets spent on – ie the war machine. To not include the DoD budget is assinine, since the vast majority of it is spent on expanding and maintaining wars. Check the DoD programs I have linked to in the article.
pp Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
You’re nothing but an obtuse propagandist. How do you know so much without ever leaving your keyboard?
What an idiot. It is quite a shame how easily a retard like you brainwashes a generation of sub-intellects (truthers).
GreatGazoo Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 10:12 am
And who are you PP? Truthers? What are YOU? LIARS???? if you’re not a truther, you’re a freakin Liar….So shut up punk and let the big boys take care of this….You’ll be running around soon enough begging for food and water….So, Just sit around and think YOU know everything, because apperently that’s what you do….
But, You are right to a certain extent…people don’t need to be yelling dooooms day! It’s not cool….Keep your beliefs to yourself for the most part and only talk to people that want to listen or you think might want too…Other than that…it’s just a waiting game…get ready..be prepared like the good little Scout you are….That is All >Gazoo
admin Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 10:20 am
How can I know what the DoD spends its money on without leaving my keyboard? It’s called the “Internet”. It’s not like the DoD keeps it a secret, troll.
Dograts Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am
knowledge can be gotten from a desk in a library or a keyboard on the net! YOU are the one who is “obtuse” by talking trash about people you DON’T KNOW! I have read many great works in literature my life and also learned in abundance from the net. Knowledge is power! Ignorance is bliss! PP is the latter! We are NOT idiots you provoking little worm! Now go somewhere else to talk your mindless garbage you waste!
Dave Begotka Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I know just pointing out the lies of the Media!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:24 am
UNDERGROUND BASES AND SCALAR WEAPONRY/HAARP
February 26th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Obama fools you better then the weapons of mass destruction…..
what will happen this year…. IRAN will have there nuclear power station online this year….
ISRAEL will bomb IRAN befor the USA pulls out of iraq….
YOU WILL SEE ANOTHER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BEFOR THEM TROOPS COME HOME……
obama’s pledge… troops home by august next year…. DON”T GET YOUR HOPES UP….
February 26th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Carroll Quigley lays it out plain and simple about presidents in his book Tragety and Hope, hence the title, our tragety and their hope for a New World Order. Whether republican or democrat, both parties are one and the same. There is no difference to the left-right paradigm.
Derek Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
agreed. why do you think it’s called right WING and left WING? because it’s two sides of the same bird or should i say phoenix rising from the ashes. a bird is not going to fight itself.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Troop level in Iraq is reported at 50,000, but that doesn’t include the mercenaries. Troop level combined is actually at 120,000!!!!!!!! That costs the taxpayers much more because the mercenaries earn over 100,000 each. I’m assuming Afghanistan increase will be in the same proportions.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Where are you getting these numbers from?
admin Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
CNN may report $200 billion, but they fail to include the DoD budget – which has itself increased by around 10 per cent on last year’s figures. I have added information on what the DoD budget gets spent on – ie the war machine. To not include the DoD budget is assinine, since the vast majority of it is spent on expanding and maintaining wars. Check the DoD programs I have linked to in the article.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:59 am
They are trying to bore you to death forget chemtrails.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:02 am
And I know that sources are provided. But that $800 billion you’ve stated is just adding all these costs where some $600 billion of it isn’t actually related to the war. So, for example, why are you claiming that the $534 that’s going to the defense department is part of the cost of that war when there’s nothing indicating that?
admin Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am
To claim that $600 billion “isn’t related to war” is completely wrong. Go and look at what the vast majority of the Defense Department budget is spent on – fighter planes, subs and C130’s mainly. How can such programs not be related to war?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....41_billion
. Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
admin—Paul Joseph Watson;
You are a fucking retard. Fighter planes, subs and C130’s are for—pay attention—NATIONAL DEFENSE. The U.S. buys those things whether at war or not. Of course they are instruments of war, because that’s how nations defend themselves. So, the WHOLE DEFENSE BUDGET IS “RELATED TO WAR.”
You’re fucking stupid, dude.
. Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
LMFAO!!!
When the U.S. isn’t at war, it spends its defense budget money on flowers and Tickle Me Elmo plush dolls, because why buy fighter planes if they aren’t at war.
Give it up folks for your intellectual leader, Paul Joseph Watson.
LMFAO!!
February 26th, 2009 at 9:11 am
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BJ Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 11:54 am
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AUSTIN Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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February 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Why are we having needless wars? For example, why are we in Afghanistan, a landlocked country with no Navy, no Air Force, no missiles, and is not a threat to us AT ALL?
If they are a serious threat to us, then any tiny country, like maybe Cuba, is also a serious threat, and they are closer too. Why not occupy them?
We pay 42% of our Federal budget for “Past and Present Military:”
http://www.nationalpriorities......2008/10000
This is insane. Can’t we cut SOME of this?
Derek Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
the majority of the worlds heroin comes from in and around afghanistan. does that answer your question? it’s the same reason we went to vietnam. the biggest drug dealer is not the guy driving a benz or even the guy in colombia with a villa in the hills but the government.
OldBitByter Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
If you remember back to when we first got involved in Afghanistan, it was pointed out as a reason for getting involved was to construct an oil pipeline that we could control. If you really want an answer, follow the money.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Well! if an invasion of Iran (maybe Pakistan) it’s in the agenda maybe more money will be needed besides this $800 billions!
February 26th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Did you hear about the railway cars with shackles?
Some one figured out that the railways cars ordered by the federal government have shackles enough for 15 million people!!
February 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am
How come there’s no money to pay a soldier a decent wage?
A soldier gets about 1000 dollars a month.
There’s no money for support when he or she quits, for housing, nothing.
Where’s all the money going? Not on the soldiers.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
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February 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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February 26th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
your offensive,irrelevant,nonsensical comments are absolutely contributing nothing to the cause of fighting the New World Order!!This Site in only for open minded intelligent people not Compartmentalized idiots like you!