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 2008 presidency is indeed a large one. The budgeted 2008 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 new administration will control a purse of approximately that amount.

Where will this purse be spent?

In the presidential campaign little television coverage has been given to perhaps one of the most important aspects of the candidates: their advisers, the men and women who likely form the backbone of the candidate’s future cabinet if elected president. Many of the names will be familiar, as they have served either Bill Clinton’s presidency, both Bush presidencies, Carter's presidency, and/or Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

US $623 Billion

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Ron Paul

Advisers:

Peter Schiff, is an American stock broker, financial analyst, and author who frequently appears as a guest on CNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg Television and is often quoted in major financial publications. He is the president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. “We need a plan that stimulates savings and production not more of the reckless borrowing and consumption that got us into this mess in the first place. Ron Paul’s plan is the only one that amounts to a step in the right direction. If you want meaningful change - for the better that is - Ron Paul is the only candidate capable of delivering it. The others merely promise to continue the failed policies that are at the root of our current economic problems.”

Bruce Fein - founder of the American Freedom Agenda, works to restore constitutional checks and balances. He served in the US Justice Department under President Reagan and has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Republican Supports Impeachment

Walter Williams, Homepage Free market economist,Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania.
James Grant, Austrian free market, hard money economist.

Professor Robert A. Pape, 59 minute video Author: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, "Rep. Ron Paul is correct that groups who engage in suicide terrorism can only recruit in the name of fighting against foreign occupation – rather than devotion to any religion, promises of virgins in Heaven or a plot to take over the world – and why our government’s denial of this fact and its policy of regime change puts Americans in greater danger."

Leon Hadar is a Washington-based global affairs analyst whose commentary on U.S. foreign policy has been published in leading newspapers and foreign policy journals. A former UN correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, he is the author of Quagmire: America in the Middle East and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.

Ivan Eland is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of several books, including The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed.

Michael F. Scheuer, former CIA employee. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999, the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004. Authored: Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, and the earlier work, Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America

Doug Bandow is a political writer and the Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals, and is the author of several books – including, most recently, Foreign Follies. Mr. Bandow served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.

Charles V. Pena is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a senior fellow with the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, a senior fellow with the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, and an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project. Mr. Peña is the author of Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism.

Philip Giraldi (Interview) is a former officer of the Central Intelligence Agency who writes regularly on intelligence and foreign policy issues. Mr. Giraldi is a partner in an international security consultancy Cannistraro Associates, a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine and a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance.

John Stossel, ABC News
and others,Andrew Napolitano, and Jonathan Turley.

Ron Paul is the instrument for change in Washington. His consultants were chosen to correct the pervasive problems of flawed interventionist foreign and fiat monetary policies. He will end the killing. He will scale down the extraordinary $623 billion military waste of taxpayer’s funds. The savings could be applied (by political will) to our own failing programs. Ron Paul is looking to a new pathway. His pathway is of “Peace, Commerce, and True Friendship.”

This article is part of an ongoing project by Linda Inveninato.

jinveninato@yahoo.com

This project is not associated with the Ron Paul campaigns. (01-07-08)

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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s advisers:

Madeleine Albright, the main force behind the Iraq sanctions that killed more than 400,000 Iraqi civilians.
Richard Holbrooke, in the Carter administration he overseered the shipment of weapons to the Indonesian military as they were invading—illegally invading East Timor and killing a third of the population there, and who kept the UN Security Council from enforcing its resolution against that invasion.
Strobe Talbott, during the Clinton administration, overseered Russia policy, a backing of Yeltsin, which resulted in turning over the national wealth to the oligarchs and a drop in life expectancy in much of Russia of about fifteen years—massive, massive death.
Sandy Berger, stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators.

 

 

 

 

Lee Feinstein, Scholar on the Council of Foreign Relations, quote “The unprecedented threat posed by terrorists and rogue states armed with weapons of mass destruction cannot be handled by an outdated and poorly enforced nonproliferation regime. The international community has a duty to prevent security disasters as well as humanitarian ones -- even at the price of violating sovereignty.”

John Podesta and Bill Clinton created the Center for American Progress. Presented on their website has been "Contractopoly: The Game of Global Economic Manipulation."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barack Obama’s advisers:

Tony Lake, the main force behind the US invasion of Haiti in the mid-Clinton years during which they brought back Aristide essentially in political chains, pledged to support a World Bank/IMF overhaul of the economy, which resulted in an increase in malnutrition deaths among Haitians and set the stage for the current ongoing political disaster in Haiti.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who gave an interview to the French press a number of years ago where he boasted about the fact that it was he who created the whole Afghan jihadi movement, the movement that produced Osama bin Laden. And he was asked by the interviewer, “Well, don’t you think this might have had some bad consequences?” And Brzezinski replied, “Absolutely not. It was definitely worth it, because we were going after the Soviets.
Sarah Sewall, who heads a human rights center at Harvard and is a former Defense official, she wrote the introduction to General Petraeus’s Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency handbook, the handbook that is now being used worldwide by US troops in various killing operations.

General Merrill McPeak – shortly after the Indonesian Dili massacre in East Timor in 1991 he oversaw the delivery of US fighter planes to Indonesia.
Dennis Ross, for many years under both Clinton and Bush, oversaw US policy toward Israel/Palestine. He pushed the principle that the legal rights of the Palestinians, the rights recognized under international law, must be subordinated to the needs of the Israeli government—in other words, their desires, their desires to expand to do whatever they want in the Occupied Territories.

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