Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121010:08:36:00
For the wars in iraq and afghanistan specifically because that was done as emergency spending. this is just the base military budget. but minus those two big wars, the blue line is where u.s. military spending is right now. the obama plan, what the president has campaigned on is to have military spending go like this. he would maintain our current level of defense spending over the next eight years. he would spend way more than a cold war-style drawdown. way more than the sequester, but he would treat the budget as the new normal with slight increases over time. that's the obama plan for the b...