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October 31, 2009

OBAMA SIGNS RECORD MILITARY BUDGET

World Socialist - In a ceremony Wednesday, Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security. . .

Obama signed the record Pentagon budget less than three weeks after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. . .

10/31/2009

1 Comments:

Anonymous robbie said...

President Obama received a Nobel Peace prize and then approved the largest single military appropriation in the history of the world. Change We Don't Have Any Choice But To Believe In.

November 1, 2009 7:34 PM  

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