Phase III – Stealth Is.

Did you know that President-elect Obama:

• voted for every one of President Bush’s Iraq-War funding increases?
• believes Bush’s “surge” in Iraq has “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams” and has proclaimed his “absolute” belief in the “War on Terror”?
• criticized the Iraq War because it is “unwinnable,” not because it is illegal, immoral and has killed one million Iraqis?
• will probably leave 140,000 private contractors (mercenaries) and as many as 60,000 to 80,000 regular US troops in Iraq?
• praised President Bush, Sr., and the 1991 Gulf War saying: “I think that when you look back at his foreign policy, it was a wise foreign policy. In how we executed the Gulf War…. I think George H.W. Bush doesn’t get enough credit for…his foreign policy team and the way that he…prosecuted the Gulf War. That cost us $20 billion dollars. That’s all it cost. It was extremely successful.”
• is willing to bomb Iran and that he won’t rule out a first strike nuclear attack?
• wants to send an additional 10,000 US troops to fight the war in Afghanistan?
• wants to expand the Afghan war with unilateral air strikes to bomb Pakistan?
• supported Israel’s war against Lebanon?
• supports Ballistic Missile Defense?
• favours military expenditures on warplanes that he says “provide the backbone of our ability to extend global power.”
• voted for the Patriot Act II, the Wall Street bailout, building a border wall with Mexico and immunity for corporations that conducted electronic eavesdropping on Americans?
• wants continued sanctions against Cuba?
• called President Chavez an “enemy of the US” and wants sanctions against Venezuela?

The idea that Obama is anti-war is a powerful myth that will impede the peace movement’s ability to mobilize opposition to the inevitable continuation of US militarism and imperialism. President Obama may then prove to be more of an obstacle to peace than a true agent of change moving the US economy away from a world in which corporations seek profit through predatory wars. Obama’s deceitful image as peacemonger will allow him to get away with policies and actions that would not be countenanced for an instant if they had come from the likes of McCain or Bush.  This blindspot for Obama’s pro-war agenda will not only hamper the ability of US peace activists to speak out, organize and protest, it will also help to dampen the efforts of many others around the world.

Under President Obama, the US military budget may well be spending about $2.3 billion a day. The 2008 US military budget is $696 billion. Obama says he will increase military spending and will add 65,000 troops to the Army and 27,000 Marines. Every increase of 1,000 army troops adds about $2 billion per year, while every addition of 1,000 Marines adds $1 billion/year. That means Obama’s proposal could add $157 billion, bringing the total to $857 billion per year, which means about $2.3 billion per day.

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There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft’s list.

The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.

State-by-State list below.
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