More hypocrisy, Bush guts military to fund Iraq oil war

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This man just ‘won’ an election based on a strong military message, a strong defense, yet the very next month is proposing cuts to almost every major weapons program that would help defend these United States in the future. All to pay for his personal oil war in Iraq.

When would Republicans wake up to the hypocrisy of this lying administration? With over $200 billion spent in Iraq, he now goes after our own military to continue funding it. Damn Bush, Rumsfeld and this entire administration, a bunch of crooks and liars! People who defend this administration are not "good Americans" according to Sean Hannity, they are blind and brainwashed!

PENTAGON SLASHES $30B FROM MAJOR NAVY, AIR FORCE, MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS: The Pentagon is preparing to ax nearly $30B from its spending plans over the next six years and deal significant blows to nearly its entire roster of major weapon programs. These cuts to big-ticket aircraft, ship and missile defense programs are accompanied by a $25B increase in spending for the Army over the same period, according to budget documents and sources. They reflect pressures that ongoing operations in Iraq are exerting on modernization plans. Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy SECDEF, approved the spending changes Dec. 23 in Program Budget Decision No. 753. The 26-page document marks one of the final steps in a year-long process to construct the Pentagon's 2006 spending proposal. Barring any persuasive last-minute appeal by a service chief or secretary, the decisions likely will be included in the DoD's 2006 spending request when it is forwarded to Congress in early February, according to a former Pentagon official familiar with the budget process. The document directs significant changes to a number of major programs between 2006 and 2011, including: Terminating C-130J cargo aircraft procurement for the Air Force and completing the remaining buy of KC-130Js for the Marine Corps in 2006. Cut: $5B; Shrinking the size of the Air Force F/A-22 program from 277 aircraft to 180 aircraft and completing the buy in 2008. Cut: $10.5B; Restructuring missile defense programs. Cut: $5B; Trimming two ships from the Navy's next-generation destroyer program. Cut: $2.5B; Eliminating the procurement of the amphibious ship LPD-17 in 2008. Cut: $952M; Reducing Virginia Class submarine procurement to one ship per year. Cut: $5.3B; Terminating the JCM Program. Cut: $2.3B; Delaying initial operating capability for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program. Cut: $1.5B; Reducing the procurement ramp for the V-22 Osprey program. Cut: $1.2B; Terminating the Joint Warfare Simulation program. Cut: $50M; Terminating the Air Force's Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser Extended Range program. Cut: $403M; Restructuring the Air Force's E-10A aircraft program. Cut: $600M; Restructuring the Transformational Satellite program. Cut: $400; Restructuring the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance program. Cut: $476M; Retiring in 2006 the aircraft carrier Kennedy. Cut: $1.2B; Restructuring the J-UCAS program. Cut: $1B. These actions followed guidance issued earlier in December by the White House OMB, which called on the Pentagon to reduce the size of the 2006 budget request. But for months, defense budget experts have been warning that mounting health care costs, rising expenses from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and increased personnel outlays were adding up to expensive bills that could shake up the Pentagon's weapons modernization plans. The Army sees a major windfall. The budget documents direct the addition of $5B a year between 2007 and 2011 to assist the service in reorganizing into brigade-size units. The Air Force's SBR gets a major boost -- $592M -- in the Dec. 23 budget decision, with the Pentagon planning for a first launch in 2015. Also, the service's Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite program gets a $825M increase to support a first launch in 2008. The Navy gets a $600M increase across the six-year budget period to design an “undersea superiority system” to deliver capabilities lost by the reduced purchases of submarines. These funds may not be used by the Navy for submarine programs, according to the budget document. Untouched in the budget adjustment is the Joint JSF program. The size of the cut to 2006 spending proposal is $5.9B, lower than earlier reports of $10B. These will be followed by cuts of $1.1B in 2007, $3.3B in 2008, $8.3B in 2009, $7.3B in 2010 and $3.8B in 2011, the PBD states. (InsideDefense.com)