by Kenneth J. Theisen
The
U.S. Army Chief of Staff says he can not understand gripes about the
U.S. military budget. The author helps him “get it” and denies the
“divine right of presidents.”
Recently
U.S. Army chief of staff, General Peter Schoomaker in defending the
U.S. military budget lambasted critics of U.S. war spending by stating,
‘I just don’t understand) What’s the problem? I mean, I don’t get it.’
I will tell him and the other idiots in the Bush regime what the
problem is.
The U.S. spends nearly half-a-trillion dollars
annually for military purposes. This includes not only the Pentagon
budget, but the cost of ‘intelligence’ and other related military
costs. The rest of the world combined does not spend as much on
military costs.
While I deplore the waste of such a vast
amount and wonder how the world could be changed if the money was spent
productively, the biggest problem is that this money is spent to spread
and defend an imperial system by allowing the U.S. to either make or
threaten war against other nations and people in order to dominate the
globe.
For those that deny the U.S. is a dangerous
imperial power, consider that the Pentagon admits it has troops in 120
countries. The U.S. weapons arsenal contains 10,000 nuclear warheads
and extensive conventional weapons which “our leaders” allege are
needed to defend the nation against attack. The U.S. is engaged in
aggressive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush is threatening war,
including the possibility of nuclear war, with Iran. U.S. covert teams
are already on the ground in Iran identifying and spotting future
targets for attacks. Is it any wonder, that according to polls, people
in most of the world consider the U.S. as the greatest threat to peace?
The Bush regime in its National Security Strategy openly
states that it will preemptively attack ‘future threats” to national
security. Such supposed threats are defined by a president who claims
to receive directions from god to attack other nations. The military
budget gives him the capability of doing so. That is the problem,
General Schoomaker. Do you get it now? I feel uncomfortable for a
president who revels in his ignorance to have such vast military power
at his command. I do not believe in the ‘divine right of kings or
presidents.’ But then I am not on the same terms with god as the
president seems to be.
The bottom line is that I would prefer
to drive the Bush regime from power rather than finance its ability to
impose its will on the world. The world can not wait to see what the
logical outcome of 2 1/2 more years of the Bush regime will bring us.
The first 5 1/2 years of this regime are scary enough.
To see what you can do to stop the Bush regime before it is too late, please see worldcantwait.org.