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May 18th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The Republican-led House of Representatives used “trickery” when it passed the military spending bill, slipping in $89 billion for an emergency war fund while leaving out an amendment allowing for a debate on war, former Texas Congressman Ron Paul says.
Such “emergency”
spending is not included in growth caps placed on the military
under the 2011 budget control act, Paul wrote on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace
and Prosperity website. He added the move is a “loophole
filled by Congress with fed-printed money.”
Paul stressed that a large sum of the money will go to President
Obama’s war on the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL),
despite the fact that neither the House nor the Senate has
authorized such a war. An effort by a small group of
representatives to introduce an amendment aimed at debating the
war was rejected, despite 135 other amendments being added to the
defense bill.
He went on to state that by quelling the debate on unauthorized
wars, the bill pushes the US towards new conflicts.
Using Ukraine as an example, Paul criticized Obama’s “unwise
decision” to send US military trainers to the country,
adding that the move threatens the nation’s shaky ceasefire.
“The military spending bill included $300 million to directly
arm the Ukrainian government even as Ukrainian leaders threaten
to again attack the breakaway regions in the east. Does Congress
really think US-supplied weapons killing ethnic Russians in
eastern Ukraine is a good idea?” he wrote.
He added that the military spending bill, known as the National
Defense Authorization for 2016, also seeks to send more weapons
directly to the Kurds in northern Iraq – without the approval of
the Iraqi government.
“Although these weapons are supposed to be used to fight
ISIS, we know from too many prior examples that they often find
their way into the hands of the very people we are
fighting,” Paul wrote, adding that arming a group which is
seeking to break away and form its own state is an “unwise
infringement of the sovereignty of Iraq.”
“It is one thing to endorse the idea of secession as a way to
reduce the possibility of violence, but it is quite something
else to arm one side and implicitly back its demands,” he
continued.
Paul stated that while the “neocons” maintain that the
military budget is shrinking under Obama, the opposite is
actually true. Citing the CATO Institute, he stressed that
President George W. Bush’s average defense budget was $601
billion, while the average has been $687 billion during the Obama
administration.
“Next year’s military spending plan keeps the US on track
toward destruction of its economy at home while provoking new
resentment over US interventionism overseas. It is a recipe for
disaster. Let’s hope for either a presidential veto, or that on
final passage Congress rejects this bad bill,” Paul
concluded.
The annual military spending bill, totaling roughly $612 billion,
was passed in a 269 to 151 vote on Friday.
Democrats were particularly outraged over Republicans’ attempts
to sidestep sequestration spending cuts, saying they could not
accept any increases in military spending without equivalent
increases for other programs.
President Obama has threatened to veto the legislation, which
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter described as “clearly a
road to nowhere.”
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