Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global
Dominance | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED  Barack Obama Administration
Continues US Military Global Dominance  Barack Obama’s election
brought a moment of hope for many. However, the Obama
administration is not calling for decreased military spending,
or a reversal of US military global dominance. Instead, Obama
retained Robert Gates, thus making Obama the first president
from an opposing party, in US history, to keep in place the
outgoing administrations’ Secretary of Defense/War.
Additionally, Obama is calling for an expanded war in
Afghanistan and only minimal long-range reductions in Iraq.  The
US military industrial complex is deeply embedded inside the
Washington beltway. According to the most recent reports from,
151 members of Congress in 2006 had up to $195.5 million of
their personal assets invested in defense companies.  Major
defense contractors were seriously involved in the 2008
elections. Lockheed Martin gave $2,612,219 in total political
campaign