goodell metra school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it is taught you'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that committed abuses and usurpations of missiles and i was a him make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to a war i was. i was about his election was hailed by many. as the beginning of a political phase radically different from that of the bush administration and in many ways it has been. but the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for new military bases in a number of countries show how hard it is for this or any other president to challenge those policies that benefit the military industrial complex and perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose when it destine the country's dwindling resources to strengthen social and democratic institutions or will it continue to fuel this parasit