US military budget vs. other US priorities

"The United States must not compound one strategic mistake--invading Iraq and breaking the Iraqi state--with another, funding an intensified civil war and a corrupt Iraqi government. " I strong agree with this statement because no matter how the other country's government does not good at rule the country, others countries do not have right to paticipant in that political. The only thing could do is try the best to give the global help, but not start the war or put the military into the other's country. I think that action means invade. And the war looks like the US want to expand the military and get control of the oil...

"This year spending will easily top $160 billion...Ongoing veterans' health costs, debt payments and the cost of re-equipping the military are some of the reasons for this outrageous $3 trillion bill. At the same time that the war has imposed a huge burden on taxpayers, it has precipitated one of the largest transfers of wealth and power in modern history. By helping to drive up world oil prices, it has produced a massive redistribution of wealth from working Americans and other oil and gas consumers to a handful of oil producers...Redirecting Iraq War funds to education, healthcare, renewable energy and infrastructure would create up to twice as many jobs...All the candidates, meanwhile, want to increase the already enormous military budget..." To my opinion, money could help people do so many stuff and change people's life. But the government choose to use those money to fight the war but not improve the quality of people's life. In the Iraq war, as the money spend in the war increase, the more livies will be lost. So, is that the stupid thing to start the war? Most of the people think, the government only care the profit of oil which they can make, they never care about the public vision.
According to the pie chart, we can see that 43% of the taxes, the US government spend it on the Military and the post wars. But the health services and the social programs only use 23% of the taxes. To my own opinion, some part of the taxes should use to support the military, but the major percentage of taxes should the government use it to make people's life better, not to ruin the other's livies.
(Source: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/editors20080331/editors
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSmilitarybudgetvsotherUSprioritieses.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSmilitarybudgetvsotherUSpriorities )