My point is, your numbers on actual spending are incorrect.
The FY 2007 budget shows defense as 20% of all requests, which is where I am assuming you got that 20% figure.
However, budgets and spending are not the same thing.
If that's not where you got it, then post where you got it, or we are left to assume you simply made it up. Post a friggin' source. Otherwise all you have is propaganda . . .
The truth is we spend FAR more on defense that what you are stating.
This has nothing to do with Al Qaeda or their propaganda. Just because I point out the flaws in your numbers, it does not mean I am a terrorist sympathizer. I don't have a "goat" to get.
Post the budget and all discretionary spending (including emergency appropriations) and we'll see just how much has been spent, and how much more we are in debt requiring future spending -- money that's been spent before we even have it.
When discussing defense spending, you cannot push aside debts created by the war and say they don't count.
No where am I talking budgets. I am talking percents of actual amounts spent. It's what you spend that matters.
No matter wehter you express it as a percentage of GDP or of Federal spending Defense and the Iraq war are dramatically less than the 50 year post WWII average spent on Defense.
A budget is just that a budget. As in projected spending. Just like all the talk about the "Surplus" that never materialized because it was projected, never existed.
It must really get your goat when all that Al Queada Propaganda turns out to be just that Propaganda.
