After watching Sec. Powell make a (false) claim to the UN for WMD's to promote the Iraq conflict and it turned out to be total hogwash, one has to be a little cautious with some of these claims. I have a good friend who is a liberatarian, isolationist and annihilist. Right this minute I have Tucker Carlson asking my question on FOX: Where is the proof? I don't want the pretext to a war initiated by some outright false narratives. Sec. Powell was caught between a rock and a hard place trying to defend a bunch of outright lies. And I liked Bush in many ways, but I don't want to be hoodwinked into something that is not proven. I'm in the same camp as Bolton believe or not, but I need proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXMx_AJ0oE

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I don't agree with you that China spends only $174.5 billion in military defense spending. The fact is China spent hundreds of billions of dollars, setting military defense system in the Pacific's Spartley Islands, a strategy to completely own the East Pacific that does not belong to them. This also prevents the West from engaging commerce with the Pacific Rim countries, thus monopoly is for China for all commerce. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam are now being bullied by China on this account.

China has now the most sophisticated air defense system, and underground water defense mechanism than the United States. China's infrastructure is most modern, their airports, and highways are so modern ready for war.

US is so neglected, with so much deferred maintenance, accidents are happening because of that. Do you like that? Or are you a Muslim enemy of the US just pretending and lying, while trying to invade for a takeover later?

During the 8 years of Obama, the US military has been abandoned. In fact Mr. Obama reduced military generals and officers for 197 of them, drastically reduced funding to our defense system to weaken our military. And as a result, for 8 years US Defense system was underfunded. Our military equipment had been obsolete, war planes and all kinds of defense mechanism, because there was no modernization and updates. Defense maintenance of our hardware had been abandoned.

For the 8 years of Mr. Obama, thousands of our sick and disabled veterans have been deprived of medical care due to lack of funding. They waited and waited for years, for medical doctors, nobody came to help until they DIED.

Whereas Mr. Obama put priorities to funding tens and millions of illegal aliens, terrorists, and Muslim refugees with Obamacare, using our taxpayers money.

These illegal aliens from Mexico, and Muslims countries made so many babies to multiply their population for their takeover of our country. They use the hospitals paid for by our taxes, for delivering the rapid baby making system. And because these pregnant Mexican women are about to drop their babies, hospitals have no choice but help them ahead of the other paying patients waiting on the emergency clinic.

I saw them with my own two eyes. When I brought my mom-in-law for emergency hospital, she was not able to get in on time, because there were 5 Mexican pregnant women lined up behind about to drop their babies.

Fact was my mother-in-law has additional United Healthcare medical insurance paying high monthly premium, in addition to her Medicare coverage.

That was the Obama way more illegals to be feed so that they help vote for them illegally for more handouts. Is that where you stand? What if my mom-in-laws situation was in your shoes? How do you like it?

US deferred and abandoned defense funding is now recovered by president Trump, to upgrade degraded equipment and save those dying veterans in crisis and dying.
They fought for our liberty and freedom with their lives and sacrifices. They deserve our help! Are you complaining about that? We are free because of them.

After watching Sec. Powell make a (false) claim to the UN for WMD's to promote the Iraq conflict and it turned out to be total hogwash, one has to be a little cautious with some of these claims. I have a good friend who is a liberatarian, isolationist and annihilist. Right this minute I have Tucker Carlson asking my question on FOX: Where is the proof? I don't want the pretext to a war initiated by some outright false narratives. Sec. Powell was caught between a rock and a hard place trying to defend a bunch of outright lies. And I liked Bush in many ways, but I don't want to be hoodwinked into something that is not proven. I'm in the same camp as Bolton believe or not, but I need proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXMx_AJ0oE

Radiance, how does/can China present such military/defense threat to the US when they will spend in 2018 US$174.5 BILLION compared to the US spending of over $1 TRILLION on military/defense? Could it be that the war drums you are hearing are from the propaganda machine that the US controls.

The real threat you and the rest of the US sheople are not being told is the threat China posses to the petrodollar and the loss of its hegemony in the global economy. You can partially thank America's crushing debt caused by US continual, illegal, unConstitutional, immoral warmongering to beneift big oil and the military industrial complex.