Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans

March 27th, 2018

Awake Goy

Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans

By rp_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/neocons-back-big-war-budget-big-war-plans

And about the militarism funded by the bill? Defense Secretary James Mattis said at the same press conference that, As the President noted, today we received the largest military budget in history, reversing many years of decline and unpredictable funding. Hes right and wrong at the same time. Yes it is another big increase in military spending. In fact the US continues to spend more than at least the next seven or so largest countries combined. But his statement is misleading. Where are these several years of decline? Did we somehow miss a massive reduction in military spending under President Obama? Did the last Administration close the thousands of military bases in more than 150 countries while we werent looking? Of course not. On militarism, the Obama Administration was just an extension of the Bush Administration, which was an extension of the militarism of the Clinton Administration. And so on. The military-industrial complex continues to generate record profits from fictitious enemies. The mainstream media continues to play the game, amplifying the war propaganda produced by the think tanks, which are funded by the big defense contractors. This isnt a conspiracy theory. This is conspiracy fact. Enemies must be created to keep Washington rich, even as the rest of the country suffers from the destruction of the dollar. That is why the neocons continue to do very well in this Administration. While Trump and Mattis were celebrating big military spending increases, the president announced that John Bolton, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war debacle, would become his national security advisor. As former CIA analyst Paul Pillar has written, this is a man who, while at the State Department, demanded that intelligence analysts reach pre-determined conclusions about Iraq and WMDs. He cooked the books for war. Bolton is on the record calling for war with Iran, North Korea, even Cuba! His return to a senior position in government is a return to the unconstitutional, immoral, and failed policies of pre-emptive war. Make no mistake: the neocons are back and looking for another war. Theyve got the presidents ear. Iran? North Korea? Russia? China? Whos next for the warmongers?

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