The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop

[kaygore]

The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop
By Frida Berrigan, Tomdispatch.com. Posted May 28, 2008.

The Pentagon has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasury that won't be easily undone by future administrations.

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Who, today, even remembers the debate at the end of the Cold War aboutå what role U.S. military power should play in a "unipolar" world?

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The attacks of September 11, 2001 decisively ended that debate. The Bush administration promptly declared total war on every front -- against peoples, ideologies, and, above all, "terrorism" (a tactic of the weak).

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The Bush administration has presided over one of the largest military buildups in the history of the United States. And that's before we even count "war spending." If the direct costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Global War on Terror, are factored in, "defense" spending has essentially tripled.

As of February 2008, according to the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers have appropriated $752 billion for the Iraq war and occupation, ongoing military operations in Afghanistan, and other activities associated with the Global War on Terror. The Pentagon estimates that it will need another $170 billion for fiscal 2009, which means, at $922 billion, that direct war spending since 2001 would be at the edge of the trillion-dollar mark.

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[arcadian]

1. If terrorism is a tactic of the weak

Then George W. Bush is the weakest man on the planet, he and his minions employ terrorism everyday.

[Octafish]

2. This is what happens when the MI-Complex is led by a crazy monkey...

...permanent war meaning permanent war profiteering.



W is for Warmonger.

Thank you, kaygore. KRB. A must-read.