We've GOT to fight for a lower war budget

[Ken Burch]

And that's what we need to call it. The "War Budget". Not the "defense budget".

Almost nothing in the massive increases in Pentagon spending is actually related to defending this country. It's about developing greater capacity to kill people in other countries, and about justifying future wars simply to use that capacity.

Democratic presidents and Democratic congresses are NOT supposed to treat the world as if it needs to be beaten back with larger and larger sticks.

And they aren't supposed to piss away more and more money on death rather than life.

The Cold War is over.

The War on Terror is and always has been a myth.

And the money is almost gone.

Let's stop acting like the second coming of Scoop Jackson. Democrats are SUPPOSED to work for a less-militarized world, not just keep building up the war machine forever and ever and ever just to look "tough". "Toughness" can't be used for anything progressive or positive anyway.

And the voters, even the independents, aren't demanding massive war spending either.

Let's move on and let's make this party stand for what it's supposed to stand for.