Text Ticker: Obama Requests Record Pentagon Budget, Kinda Sorta
Step 4 of the AA 12 steps is "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Seems like the Obama administration is getting there.
The Obama administration just released the outline of a $533.7 billion Fiscal Year 2010 budget for the Department of Defense. While a detailed, line-by-line request has yet to be submitted to Congress, the bottom line is clear: The base budget for FY '10 will rise slightly over the previous year, but it will factor in billions in supplemental spending that the Bush administration did not place in the regular Pentagon budget.
Next step on the way to the end of militarization addiction, according to AA? "Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Time for that promised speech in the Muslim world? [go!]

