Worldwide Military Expenditures
Statistics show that civilian deaths due to wars have increased dramatically since WW1:
-In WW1 civilian casualties count was calculated at 20%.
-In WW2, 58% of deaths were civilian.
-In the Vietnam “Police Action,” 70% of deaths were civilian.
-And now in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilians account for more than 90% of the death toll.
Americans are dissatisfied with the Iraq War, sold through falsehoods of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In 2006 we went to the polls and overwhelmingly chose anti-war candidates from the Democrats to replace the Republican war party. Yet, those same electees did not serve America well. Although they have the power to revoke the president’s war in Iraq by refusing funding, they have chosen to continue to support this terrible foreign policy of war. Why?
The monetary prize for the 2009 presidency is indeed a large one. The budgeted 2009 US Military expenditure is $623 billion. The US spends more than the entire world combined and 10 times that of China, the next largest spender. The Obama administration will control a purse of approximately that amount.
May 2009 bring us Closer to the Spirit of Human Understanding, Closer to the Blessings of Peace.
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