Dems: What about the Military Budget?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Dems: What about the Military Budget?

William D. Hartung | February 21, 2008

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Not only have the major presidential candidates been largely silent on these record expenditures, but they want to increase them. Barack Obama has said we will probably need to "bump up" the military budget in a new administration, and both he and Hillary Clinton have committed themselves to increasing the size of the armed forces by tens of thousands of troops. On the Republican side of the aisle, John McCain and Mike Huckabee are looking to spend even more than their Democratic counterparts.

We are long overdue for a national debate on how much we actually need to defend America in an era in which our greatest threat is the possibility that a terrorist group might get its hands on nuclear weapons. Even if Iraq had possessed nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, military force would not have been the most effective way to address the problem. The lesson of Iraq is that rigorous inspections are the best way to root out dangerous weapons programs.

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http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5009

[FreakinDJ]

1. How about HOW they spend the Military budget

No Bid contracts to Haliburton

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Make Scott Ritter Sec. of Defense.

[thunder rising]

3. "But tens of billions of dollars are being wasted" (from the link)

The actual personnel count in uniform has decreased over the decades. This force was never intended to fight an extended siege nor war of attrition. The premise was that a justified war would bring the weight of the United States. However, in the Iraq scenario the military is out of people. There must be a change in the structure of the military spending.

[OHdem10]

4. Follow Peter Bienarts suggestion and put Sam Nunn on the Ticket

suggestion.

Seriously, the Military has to be rebuilt ,new recruits needed.
Lotsa Money.