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The cost of an empire - Obama increases military spending

submitted by cybrbeast

1 decade 5 years 4 months ago

"$663,000,000,000 that's how much president Obama has set aside for the department of defense and the continuation of the wars Iraq and Afghanistan in his 2010 budget. Adjusting for inflation this is a slight increase from 2009"

6 Comments

gotta spend money to make money.

at least this time its not going completely to waste.

we dont have a choice in this matter; we have to fix some of the mess, and this is the cost. did someone say it was free to tear up the globe? bush skipped on the bill; how is that obama's fault...

Hey you can't pull the plug on the Military-Industrial complex overnight. I have always been against premature troop withdrawl, since we broke it we bought it. I like the sound of increasing pay for the military, and I hope that those funds would also extend to after-duty, since the way we're treating our veterans is nothing to be too proud of.

I wish the military was as much an empire as the left claims it is. Though it's hardly conquest, it would be refreshing to see tanks and landmines placed on the Southern US border and seizing enough Mexican oil to pay for all the damages illegals cause as well as their deportation.

We could take over Cuba in a week and make the whole thing a US missile base/casino.

Iraqis would finally pay for their freedom--a freedom they would never have won for themselves--in oil reserves.

The UN would be moved to Haiti or the Arctic.

800-588-2300...Em-PIRE!!!! To-daaay!

*long

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by dotdude.

The actual video is only 7:30, then it's a donation drive.

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