Reply #15: Venezuela spends ten times less on its military than Brazil. It has one of the lowest military

[Peace Patriot]

budgets in the region.

http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/downloads/milspend.htm
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2442
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2568

It is a total myth that Venezuela is overspending on its military, or has any aggressive intentions.

And look at this 'amusing' chart of US military expenditures
http://oilwars.blogspot.com/2008_03_30_archive.html
http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#WorldMilitarySpending

Who is the threat?

The US is going to have SEVEN new US military bases in Colombia, with NO LIMIT on the number of US soldiers and 'contractors' who can be deployed there, UNLIMITED diplomatic immunity for whatever US soldiers and 'contractors' do there, and US military use of all civilian airports and other facilities, for--as a USAF document stated--"full spectrum military operations in the region"; plus two new US military bases in Panama, the US military base and port facilities they just secured with a rightwing military coup in Honduras, the newly reconstituted US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean and all the other bases, ships, high tech spying facilities, CIA agents, Blackwater special ops teams, etc., they have in Latin America.

Who is the frigging THREAT?

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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."--James Madison