Military May Ask $127B for Wars

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II.

The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion in requests from the armed services for the 2007 fiscal year, which began last month, several lawmakers and congressional staff members said. That's on top of $70 billion already approved for 2007.

Since 2001, Congress has approved $502 billion for the war on terror, roughly two-thirds for Iraq. The latest request, due to reach the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress next spring, would make the war on terror more expensive than the Vietnam War.

Let's think about this.  Terrorism which is actually guerilla warfare.  It is a tactic of the weak against the strong.  The 'terrorists' are individuals who operate in small cells who do hit and run fighting.  Thinking about it brings to mind when I was a child.  I had a big brother who would tease and torment me mercilessly.  Since I couldn't take him on toe to toe, I would bide my time.  I waited until his attention was on something else - and his back was turned - and my Mother was close, and I would take my revenge... and then run like hell to hide behind my Mother.  Under today's definition, my brother could have called me a terrorist - never mind that he was the real aggressor. 

We were told that the reason we had to attack Afghanistan was because they were allowing terrorists to congregate and they had terrorist training camps.  Do you remember what the terrorist training camp looked like?   It was a bunch of old tires to run through, swinging bars and an old shack.  It did look like military training for a poor country.  So we bombed the shit out Afghanistan to get rid of the terrorist camps (and everything else) and then we attacked Iraq. 

None of it makes the least bit of sense in the context of the official story plus what is happening in our country today as a result of 9-11. 

I did a search on terrorist training camps and what I found is most interesting - an article dated September 19, 2001: 

India identifies terrorist training camps

The reason why this is so interesting is because our economy is being drained of middle class knowledge jobs that are being outsourced to India.  As such, India is the biggest winner in the war on terror.

http://www.channelingreality.com/Economic/India.htm  all of the articles below are on this page at the bottom - plus more

And Global Crossing made it possible... but did anybody go to jail from Global Crossing?  

War against the US, IMF, World Bank and WTO

Sikh Group Finds Calling in Homeland Security

Indian firms arming Iraq, says UK

 

India's attack on our economy (and make no mistake - it was an attack)  was done in stealth with the complicity of the tech industry association ITAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  It was set up by Bill Clinton and the DLC which is primarily funded by the tech industry. 

Administrative Coup d'etat   (look on the left hand side of the page for both the KTI and Catherine Austin-Fitts)

The U.S.-India Business Council and the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) are pleased to announce the Knowledge Trade Forum, the culminating event of the Knowledge Trade Initiative (KTI), to be held in Bangalore, India, November 29-30, 2001.

The KTI was launched during President Clinton’s trip to India in March 2000, and was subsequently organized under the auspices of the USIBC and FICCI. The KTI is a bilateral forum between India and the U.S. to discuss key issues affecting the trade of knowledge-based products and services between the two countries. The KTI aims to solidify Indo-US leadership in the knowledge economy by harmonizing bilateral positions on key issues affecting knowledge trade.

In 2004 Catherine Austin Fitts was interviewed on the Jim Puplava radio program to talk about U.S. government finances and mismanagement.  Fitts is  Founder and President of Solari, Inc.  And organization designed help promote 'healthy local living economies'.

In the mid-90's Jim, we knew that a huge amount of jobs and income-generating activities in America were going to get outsourced to Asia. I mean, those decisions were made in the early 90's, and we knew that was going to happen.

It doesn't make sense - and it NEVER made sense to outsource middle class knowledge jobs to India leaving the U.S. with no real economy other than Walmart.

So what are we doing in Iraq?   Spending all that money on the military that somehow is never enough to equip our soldiers?

The Set-Up

In the decade prior to the millennium rollover, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton set the stage for the coup.  Bush dismantled SAC and stood up STRATCOM.  STRATCOM is the military unit that was responsible for integrating the command structure of the Services - creating the 'Joint Command'.  This consolidation of leadership in the Services was the means by which the U.S. nuclear assets were put under the command of one man - one general and the old-line military leaders were shunted aside. 

Bill Clinton dismantled our government and privatized a significant portion of it under the guise of 'reinventing government'.   Outsourcing the Pentagon

George Bush ordered the sell-off of U.S. Assets:

In 1987, the Carlyle Group was founded as a private investment bank located in Washington DC.  They were perfectly positioned to buy up defense businesses that were in trouble when George Bush cut defense budgets to take advantage of the supposed "Peace Dividend' due to the end of the Cold War.

Carlyle - Investing in War

And what a 'coincidence', the Carlyle Group was holding their annual meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington DC on September 11, 2001. 

And the icing on the cake comes from ... one more time.... Thomas Barnett.

Page 3 of the transcript from Barnett's presentation at ICAF.

We have to locate transformation within the global vision.  We outspend the world on defense.  We’re spending over $450 billion a year.  If all we only want to defend this country, we could do it for about $100 billion per year, I’m certain.  So why are we spending $350 billion dollars  extra? I will argue we are conducting a transaction with the outside world.  We’re selling a product.  The world is buying that product when it buys our debt.  For example, we float 130 billion dollars U.S. treasuries first quarter 2003, 4/5 of it was bought by foreigners.  Two biggest buyers, Japan and China.  Two countries with huge dependencies on Middle Eastern oil.   That was a transaction whether we realize it or not.

 

We have an unprecedented capacity to wage war.    Nobody even comes close.  We do not have nearly the same capacity to wage peace as we’ve seen in Iraq since May of last year.  I will argue that we’ve been exporting security around the planet for the last 60 years.  For the biggest chunk of that time period we had a competitor in the process.  If we exported too much to a particular country or region, he would got pissed off.  If he did it, we got pissed off.  He went away in 1990, demand for our services skyrocket.  Here is the best measure I’ve developed working with Hank Gaffney at Simi Corporation as a consultant.  I’m going to talk about combined service crisis response days.  Meaning that if the navy, marines. the airforce and the army all send troops to say Somalia, for 100 days each, I’m going to call that 4 x 100 = 400 cumulative combined crisis response days from the services.. billable hours which I think is the best measure.  Not bombs dropped, billable hours - not just because we value our people more than anything else, but because they cost more than anything else.  Here are some numbers, here are some decades.  70’s roughly 10,000 days, not including Viet Nam on-going conflict, so we are focusing on crisis response with some level of combat days, so not humanitarian assistance or disaster relief.  80’s a rough doubling - spiking in interstate war across the system according to the great data from the University of Maryland.    Soviets go away, demand for our services increase 4-5 fold.  Best definition I’ve found of a military under real stress across the 90’s.    How did we deal with that spike?  A variety of ways.  We outsourced to contractors, all the Brown and Roots, we created a new category, military operations other than war.

Exporting Security

This most twisted way of looking at military operations is as deceptive as it is revealing.  There are a couple of ways to define 'exporting security'.  Since he is talking about the military, the immediate thought might be that you think he is talking about keeping the peace - but that's not what he's talking about - not in this era.  When you consider the entire presentation and his background, it becomes clear that what he is talking about is technology - control systems.  High Technology control systems - a net-centric world of control.  The business about billable hours is straight from the consulting business.  On page 5, it becomes clear when he says - "disconnectedness defines danger".  The most accurate way to envision what he is saying is to think of the mafia selling 'security' to business owners.  If you don't think you have the need for their 'services', then they will create the need.  In other words - terrorism.

And this is where we have the convergence between India, the Carlyle Group, the technology industry, the military and the extortion budgets and the destruction of our economy, Iraq and terrorism and dissolving and dismantling our nation - literally taking it apart.

Barnett described Wall Street's game plan in a presentation he gave to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.  The following is an excerpt from Barnett's presentation (note: he is a master at doublespeak).  The strategy below is the strategy to destroy the U.S. - not the strategy for the benefit of the U.S.

"Four elements are put together.  I’ll confess, I’m an economic determinist.  I’ll say that technology is the main driver of history.  If globalization continues to advance - all these good things will happen.  You can attach numbers to most of these in terms of per capita income.   Get them below a certain level and they stop doing a lot of these bad things and they start moving in the direction of these positive things.  But I’ll argue we have to manage carefully four crucial flows within globalization IV.  Those four crucial flows meaning resources in regions where they are plentiful have to migrate to regions where they are in scarce supply.       The movement of people is a key flow.  The money of energy is a key flow.  The movement of money - long term, foreign direct investments - not flows in and out of stock markets, not commercial bank loans but foreign direct investment - equity ownership.  Finally, the exporting of security which only the United States can do in any appreciable manner."

The movement of people - allowing our country to be invaded by illegal aliens and importing foreign workers on visas to drive our wages down. Drive our wages down to poverty level so that we can't stop the globalists from destroying our country as they attempt to establish global governance.    Energy to China to fuel their growth while starving our economy of the energy we need.  Moving money and investment out of our country via the global network and fraudulent 'free trade' agreements to China, India and Mexico.  'Exporting Security' means waging war on countries un-cooperative to the global system.  It also means the division of our military into a global force and a crippled domestic force (Northern Command).  The global force is for the global government under the United Nations.  The intent is to impose 'democracy' at the point of a gun if necessary.  They've already divided the world up into sectors and they've incorporated foreign military 'partnerships' into the global military.

Blackmail

Last year Yale University announced a $1 BILLION scholarship program for Indians.  Why would they do that?

Either you commit national suicide by impoverishing and betraying your own population ... or we'll kill your economy entirely by moving out.   I say... let the MF's go.