I'll bet he was JUST as upset when the Bush administration was spending hundreds of billions of dollars blowing up Iraqis, just like everyone else. It's amazing how much money can be found to blow up brown people, and how little can be found for things like education, health care, or infrastructure.
Fun fact: Under the Bush administration, for the first time the US defence budget expanded to the point where it roughly equal to the defence budgets of the entire rest of the world (it's now "only" 43% or so of the world total; they could cut 2/3 of it and still be spending over twice as much as China, the world's #2 military spender). In 2003, the total was just shy of a trillion dollars, or about the entire current GDP of Australia (ranked 13-14th of countries in the world by GDP, depending on who you ask) and 2/3 - 9/10 as much as Russia or India's entire GDP (again, depending on who you ask). By some estimates it is expected the budget will actually pass a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2010.
Fun fact #2: The figures above are only based on officially reported military expenditures authorised through Congress, which is decidedly less than the actual cost of, say, the war in Iraq. In fact, the operations of Iraq and Afghanistan were not even counted in those figures prior to this year, as they were funded in supplementary bills and not the Federal Budget. So you can add the entire cost of both wars and subsequent occupations on top of this. The "official" figures on the cost of those wars (which does not include Pentagon "black box" operations, whose funding are not reported, nor many things such as the hiring of mercenaries groups like Blackwater) is $900,000,000,000 as of 2008. These figures also do not include the cost of medical treatment for wounded soldiers, nor the interest on the additional debt added to the United States budget.
Fun fact #3: The Obama administration has ramped up military spending since taking office.
Fun fact: Under the Bush administration, for the first time the US defence budget expanded to the point where it roughly equal to the defence budgets of the entire rest of the world (it's now "only" 43% or so of the world total; they could cut 2/3 of it and still be spending over twice as much as China, the world's #2 military spender). In 2003, the total was just shy of a trillion dollars, or about the entire current GDP of Australia (ranked 13-14th of countries in the world by GDP, depending on who you ask) and 2/3 - 9/10 as much as Russia or India's entire GDP (again, depending on who you ask). By some estimates it is expected the budget will actually pass a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2010.
Fun fact #2: The figures above are only based on officially reported military expenditures authorised through Congress, which is decidedly less than the actual cost of, say, the war in Iraq. In fact, the operations of Iraq and Afghanistan were not even counted in those figures prior to this year, as they were funded in supplementary bills and not the Federal Budget. So you can add the entire cost of both wars and subsequent occupations on top of this. The "official" figures on the cost of those wars (which does not include Pentagon "black box" operations, whose funding are not reported, nor many things such as the hiring of mercenaries groups like Blackwater) is $900,000,000,000 as of 2008. These figures also do not include the cost of medical treatment for wounded soldiers, nor the interest on the additional debt added to the United States budget.
Fun fact #3: The Obama administration has ramped up military spending since taking office.