American Militarism: Is The USA Addicted To War?

[norml]

American Militarism: Is The USA Addicted To War?
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 3:02 pm
Opinion: Guest Opinion

American Militarism: Is The USA Addicted To War?

First Consider The Evidence, Then Draw Your Own Conclusions
By: Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
Published by Coalition For Free Thought In Media on 5/23/04
Let us consider the possibility that the USA has become addicted, in an economic sense, to war. While the evidence offered below is by no means exhaustive, it is directly relevant and highly probative. Therefore, the reader should consider ALL of the evidence in Exhibits A through D before judging whether or not a prima facie case has been made that America is economically addicted to war.

EXHIBIT A: US Military Budget Will Equal Rest Of World's Combined "Within 12 Months."

A new study by the PriceWaterhouseCooper corporate-finance group concluded that the USA's military "defense" budget:

(A) reached $417.4 billion in 2003;

(B) equaled nearly half - 46% - of the rest of world's ("ROW") combined military expenditures in 2003; and

(C) is growing so fast that it will equal the ROW combined "within 12 months." <1>




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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00327.htm

[puddycat]

1. Our military/industrial complex requires constant war in order to feed

Those CEOs of all the machineries of war demand more and bigger meals.

[Gyre]

2. Otherwise known as raping the taxpayer

to pay Halliburton. That's great!

Gyre