The War Machine is ravenous

The War Machine is ravenous, and it won't stop devouring our economy and our future unless we stand up and say "Enough!"
The U.S. military budget is equal to all the military expenditures of all other nations on earth combined. And yet it's never enough for the War Party, which has just succeeded in upping the amount we spend on weapons of mass destruction by 8 percent.
That's a cool $527 billion, up from $487.7 billion. That's the public number, anyway; we don't know what the real number is, since the military is secretive about what it does with our tax dollars. "National security," you know
Americans are getting kicked out of their foreclosed homes. Their jobs are disappearing. Ordinary people can't make ends meet. Yet the warlords of the Pentagon are spending millions bribing foreign warlords to support our military efforts.
In Iraq, we handed out blocks of freshly printed $100 bills. No one knows where that money went, and you can bet the U.S. government isn't looking for it too hard. In Afghanistan, where President Obama is promising to build a nation from the ground up, the bribery is taking place on an even grander scale. We are told that we've got to build schools, bridges, and hospitals in Afghanistan while our own schools, bridges, and hospitals are falling apart!
The War Machine feeds on the energy it extorts from us, and we don't have a choice about that. But you can fight back by making a tax-deductible contribution to Antiwar.com. By diverting at least some of your tax dollars to the cause of peace, you can take a stand against the empire.

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