Highlights of Bush's 3 trillion dollar budget..

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I remember years ago seeing Rumsfeld (I'm pretty sure it was him) on television expressing the idea that the war on terror would never be won. Instead, for the rest of our lives we would work at maintaining it. The idea just blew past me at the time.

Now I understand what he was really saying. And when I hear similar rhetoric now it sounds alarms.

Maintaining the war on terror means a constant state of "war" on "terror." (broadly defined by this administration) It means more wars (legal or illegal). More weapons being built and used. More profits. More disenfranchised peoples. More potential real terror. And more products and services to deal with the new terror. Fuck, even building prisons to hold people is big business.

You have the government handing out bundles of money, sometimes attached to no-bid contracts to companies in the weapons industry. In turn they create services and products to perpetuate war and turn a profit. What is better than a war that never ends, one that needs to be maintained for the duration of our lives?

McCain's recent "100 years in Iraq" comment should also throw some red flags.