Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

February 7, 2007
Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

At least in Iraq, we created enemies we can now fight. The bulk of the rest of the military
portion of the federal budget, $481.4 billion for the Defense Department and an additional $22.5
billion for other departments' defense programs, is intended to fight an enemy of advanced
military power that is nowhere to be found--not even among the dreaded "Axis of Evil" nations.

For example, this budget allocates billions to continue building stealth aircraft designed to
evade Soviet defenses the ex-superpower never managed to create.

The United States' military budget is greater than that of the next 14 biggest military
spenders combined. Even if not one additional dollar is allocated to the advanced weapons systems
now in the works, there is not a nation on Earth that would dare challenge U.S. dominance in the
air or on the seas for decades to come. The enormous imbalance in U.S. military spending is not
about defense but rather profit.