Quote Originally Posted by Hurin_Rules
Here are the sources:

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...a&ct=clnk&cd=7

What are your figures?

BTW, to put it in perspective, the US accounts for approximately half of all the military spending in the world:

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...a&ct=clnk&cd=5

Also, US military spending now accounts for more than half of all discretionary spending in the US budget(they were just discussing this on CNN, how discretionary defense spending has now hit a new high).
First of all, I have some problems with your sources- not the least of which being, they're talking about the 2006 budget, not the 2007.

My figures can be arrived at very simply...

The budget submitted is for 2.77 trillion dollards, of which 439.3 billions is for the DoD. Simple math 493.3/2770=0.1780 Or, rounded up, 18%. link

So, I'd rather go with the numbers from the Washington Post than massaged numbers from a previous year dredged up by some anti-military site.