Honesty is always the best policy and Democrat Obama told the truth as to who he is on 10/28/09 when he praised Bush's War Sec, Republican Bob Gates as he signed the National Defense Authorization Act and on 10/29/09, a bill for the Gestapo, the "Homeland" Security Dept, giving $724 billion for war and fascism while we have poverty, no schools, no healthcare, no jobs. Democrat Obama ALWAYS WAS AND STILL IS a millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter. This is what you voted for when you voted either Democrat or Republican in November 2008.

As he gave away our tax dollars to the war and fascism machines, he said:
"I want to thank you, Bob, for your extraordinary efforts." See Washington Post, 10/28/09, at
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803319_pf.html

From World Socialist Website, 10/30/09, "Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spending" by Patrick Martin at:
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/dfns-o30.shtml

"In a ceremony Wednesday, US President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen the apparatus of state repression within the United States."

"The back-to-back bill signings are a clear demonstration that Obama is extending and intensifying the program of militarism and attacks on democratic rights for which the Bush administration was deservedly hated, in the United States and worldwide."

"Each of the bills contained provisions aimed at further restricting democratic rights. The Pentagon budget bill authorizes the use of military tribunals to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and others seized illegally, either overseas or within the US, as part of the “war on terror.” It also bars the release of Guantanamo prisoners—even those found completely innocent—into the United States. It prohibits bringing Guantanamo prisoners to trial on US soil without a 45-day advance notice to Congress."

"The Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill effectively prohibits the release of photographs taken by US military personnel during torture sessions at US bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. It exempts these photos from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, under which the American Civil Liberties Union and several media outlets have filed suit in federal court. The exemption would apply, not just to the photos sought by the ACLU, but to any photos taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 to which the Pentagon has objections."

"The $680 billion authorized for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2010 is an increase of about 4 percent over the $654 billion authorized for fiscal year 2009, despite the pledged drawdown of US forces deployed in Iraq. The number of US troops in Iraq is projected to fall from 120,000 today to about 50,000 by September 2010. If the drawdown is significantly slower, or the war in Afghanistan escalates rapidly, the Obama administration will request a supplemental appropriations bill that could take total military spending beyond the highest level reached under George W. Bush." AGAIN: BEYOND THE HIGHEST LEVEL REACHED UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH.

"The appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security includes a raft of reactionary provisions:"

"Continued funding for the next three years of the E-Verify program, requiring employers to check the immigration status of workers against a federal database.
Funding a new program to monitor visitor exits from the United States, in addition to the current system of recording entries.
A 27 percent increase in cybersecurity spending, to $397 million.
$800 million for security measures along the US-Mexico border.
$1.5 billion to accelerate deportation of immigrants facing criminal charges. "

"One component of the Pentagon authorization bill is the Military Commissions Act of 2009, which retains the military tribunals established by the Bush administration with a few cosmetic changes, such as prohibiting the use of prisoner testimony derived from torture. Administration lobbyists successfully watered down more restrictive provisions adopted in the House version of the bill earlier this month."

"A Department of Justice spokesman told Time magazine that the military commissions would be a “viable option” for certain Guantanamo prisoners. White House officials have already made clear that they will not meet the January 20, 2010 deadline for emptying Guantanamo, set by Obama amid much fanfare when he took office." AGAIN, GUANTANAMO IS NOT CLOSING IN JANUARY 2010.

If you want peace and freedom, you have to vote socialist or Green. No millionaire can possibly represent the workingclass.