From Greenwashing the Pentagon by Joseph Nevins, t r u t h o u t , Sunday 13 June 2010
"The U.S. military is the world's single biggest consumer of fossil fuels, and the single entity most responsible for destabilizing the Earth's climate.
The costs of U.S. militarism and war are high and many. In addition to the growing civilian and military death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, total monies appropriated by Congress for the two wars surpassed the one-trillion-dollar mark on May 30th. Among other would-be purchases, such an enormous sum could provide 294,734,961 people with health care for one year, according to the Northampton, Massachusetts-based national Priorities Project. (1) Instead, the monies are dedicated to death and destruction - all in the name of "national security" - greatly enriching military contractors in the process."