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War spending is exempt from the president's proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama's statement at West Point that, "we can't simply afford to ignore the price of these wars."</p> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hYPM4QRv48g&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://web.archive.org/web/20100204071015oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/hYPM4QRv48g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100204071015/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100131/ts_alt_afp/usbudgetdefensestrategy">According to AFP</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The Obama administration plans to unveil a defense budget on Monday that pours billions into drones, helicopters and special forces, reflecting a focus on fighting Islamist extremists rather than conventional armies.</p> <p>The Pentagon's spending priorities as well as its strategic vision -- which is also due to be unveiled this week -- are a product of the counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan that have severely stretched the military.</p> <p>The proposed 2011 defense budget comes to more than 700 billion dollars, a modest two percent increase, and unlike last year avoids sweeping cuts to major weapons programs, according to Pentagon officials and draft documents.</p></blockquote> <p><em>Politico</em> also reports that <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100204071015/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32272.html#ixzz0eH4zJOYF">the administration's war funding estimates for the next 2 years far exceed last year's estimates</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>President Barack Obama's new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.</p> <p>In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending plan a year ago. And the strain shows itself in new deficit projections, already hobbled by lagging revenues due to the weak economy.</p></blockquote> <p>We can't afford to keep spending huge amounts of blood and treasure on a war that's causing massive human suffering and that's not making us any safer.</p> <p>In other news, Bloomberg reports that, "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100204071015/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1JVZ4zd98">Defense Stocks May Rise With Government Budget Increase</a>." Note especially the giggling about the profitability of drones. 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