Next Targets: U.S. Security & Iran

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner

As trillions are being spent for war, (The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.64 billion per day since September 30, 2004 and we are approaching 8 Trillion in debt) the Bush Administration is quietly dismantling our arms control offices.

This from the American Progress Report:

"NATIONAL SECURITY -- BUSH QUIETLY DISMANTLES ARMS CONTROL OFFICES:

Harvard specialist Graham Allison has noted that the “consensus in the national security community” is that “if policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade.”

Moreover, “if one lengthens the time frame, a nuclear strike is inevitable.”

But such warnings don’t seem to bother the White House. Global Security Newswire reported last week that "[w]hile Congress is on vacation, the Bush administration is planning to quietly eliminate most State Department arms control offices, phasing out senior positions and merging personnel and functions with nonproliferation and other units."

What’s more, this phase-out isn’t an issue of funding. It’s actually the Bush administration’s strategy:

"The changes, many of which could begin in less than two weeks, appear to reflect a determined shift by the administration away from decades of U.S. focus on promoting international arms control agreements toward ad hoc, less universal efforts to prevent the spread of restricted weapons to terrorists and certain regimes."

Why?

Because the same people who brought you the war in Iraq are preparing to bring you another one in Iran, according to The American Conservative.

Isn't that sweet?

To all you people who voted for Bush the second time around:

When the bombs start falling on us, take a bow because it's because of you, baby.