The Pentagon’s defense budget request for 2017, expected to be released related this week, is said to include a major increase in funding sought to pay for the ever-escalating ISIS war, with officials saying it will be about 35% higher than last year’s ISIS war budget.
It is probably unsurprising, as the Pentagon’s escalations have already put 3,700 ground troops in Iraq, with officials openly pushing for another 800 troops in the near term, and likely more than that before the year is out.
Though it’s being earmarked for the ISIS war, the increase would actually be pumped into the controversial Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget, a part of the budget that Pentagon officials are free to shuffle around with very few limitations.
The Pentagon has been facing a lot of internal conflict over its spending priorities, something that’ll probably carry over into the Congressional hearings. In the end, though, Congress tends to give the Pentagon everything it wants and more, and the excuse of the ISIS war seems ready-made for more spending hikes.
That’s the game. A few thousand “boots on the ground” and then present outrageous budget to the never-served-a-day cowards in Congress. How dare Congress argue dollars and cents when young Americans are in “harms way”? Highly effective emotional extortion.
This is nothing new to those of us astute enough not to be brainwashed
by crap we see and hear from the hapless, worthless, corporate media.
ISIS, ISIL, IS or whatever the crooks, thieves, and war profiteers
claim to exist, is a concoction of the corrupt USG regime, used as
a scam to swindle the people out of billions of dollars each year.
The racist USG corporate media isn’t worth a damn. We don’t have to
imagine (what) garbage we would hear if a group of Muslin (Americans)
had taken over a federal reserve in Oregon.
The only (debate) would be whether to use drone strikes, or carpet
bomb these boogeyman (terrorists).
So if ISIS is the Pentagon’s new justificantion for more money, why would you not suspect the Pentagon of being complicit in the rise of ISIS?
How obvious does it have to be?
In any crime, isn’t the first thing to ask who has the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime?
After they lie to you again and agin and again and again, why would you still believe anything they say?