The Obama Administration is seeking billions of dollars in additional terror funding for assorted anti-terror operations, including increased military aid in Pakistan and funding to confront militants across the world.
Pentagon officials declined to speculate exactly how much additional funding was being requested, and many of the requests are hidden in classified budget requests. The cost of the ever-growing CIA drone strikes against Pakistan in particular remains a closely guarded secret.
But with the Fiscal Year 2011 military budget already reaching unprecedented levels, some officials were trying to sell the additional increases as “savings.” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in particular claimed the massive increase in military aid in Yemen could in the long run save money, as it was cheaper than a hypothetical ground invasion of the nation.
The Obama Administration’s official plan has the 2011 budget as dramatically larger than 2012, but it should be remembered that when the massive 2010 budget was presented, their projections for 2011 were drastically lower then they turned out, and the 2012 budget has been called unrealistic by many.
this is the Reason for the Bankers bailout and why they were allowed to squander Tan Money on lavish bonuses. Obama needed the Banks help to create another Bubble Economy to be able to hide the exessive costs of his three, going on four Wars.
It's the military industrial complex. It's as simple as that.
Obama can't say no to those who are keeping the U.S economy barely afloat – those who make bombs, tanks and guns and sell them to the U.S military(and Taiwan, Israel, Egypt etc..)
Sorry – they just 'give' them to Israel (or have them stolen, sorry Phil Giraldi)….
The last decade will be remembered as the one in which the ruling political-banking-military-Wall Street establishment swindled middle class America out of trillions of dollars of savings and asset equity and permanently crippled the American economy with their insatiable greed and their profligate spending for endless war profits, so-called "intelligence" operations and fraudulent "security" measures. They know that the whole of America economic system is on the verge of total fiscal collapse and, in the meantime, they're stealing ever dollar they can get their grubbing hands on. For the last decade, the ruling establishment has enjoyed a great feast at the expense of the American people. They grow fat while the American people are slowly being starved to death. Know this: the entire American ruling establishment is nothing more than a criminal gang of con-artists, liars, thieves and murderers. Now, the great question is this Americans: what are “we the people” going to do about it.
I think the anti-war groups are able to launch a campaign to force the Noble Foundation to get back the " PEACE PRIZE" given to President Obama.
I am sure he would be the best to receive a prize for war fighting strategies he has given so far.
The Pentagon just loves the "war on terror". Such a cash cow! And impossible to say when enough is enough.