Will Clinton and Obama Continue Bush's High-Priced Militarism?

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Will Clinton and Obama Continue Bush's High-Priced Militarism?
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted February 6, 2008.

Will your favorite Dem challenge the bloated military budget Bush proposed for 2009?

Curb your enthusiasm. Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. If not, military spending will rise to a level exceeding any other year since the end of World War II, and there will be precious little left over to improve education and medical research, fight poverty, protect the environment or do anything else a decent person might care about.

You cannot spend well over $700 billion on "national security," running what the White House predicts will be more than $400 billion in annual deficits for the next two years, and yet find the money to improve the quality of life on the home front.

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http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/76208/

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1. Chirp?

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2. The reality is --there is no way around it. We cannot make

major changes until we have more Senators and House Members

Many of the Red State Democrats are supporters of muscular
foreign policy.

This is why the Democrats never Defund the War as a means
of getting out of Iraq. Their own members would vote with
GOP.