Weapons that aren't ready dot Bush's war budget
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush's proposed war budget includes many high-cost weapons that won't be operational for years, using a funding request aimed at supporting the troops to seek money for some of the Pentagon's favorite projects.
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When Senate Democrats move next month to narrow President Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq, at least one of their own won't be there to help. The same goes for trying to pass a spending bill for the war or a budget for the government.
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Almost regardless of what happens in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush is very unlikely to fulfill his promise of reducing the federal budget deficit by half
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Faced with a harshly critical new report, President Bush conceded Thursday that Iraq did not have the stockpiles of banned weapons he had warned of before the invasion last year, but insisted that "we were right to take action" against Saddam Hussein.
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Lawmakers are unconvinced by Administration claims that the glass is half full in America's 'forgotten war'
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Shortly before the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq last year, Saddam Hussein gathered his top generals together to share what came to them as astonishing news: The weapons that the United States was launching a war to remove did not exist.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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The Bush administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment â newly authorized for export to Chinese companies â could instead end up helping China modernize its military.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 17, 2004 - Fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but left signs that he had idle programs he someday hoped to revive, the top US weapons
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When President Bush unveils his 2006 budget on Monday, the money he requests for military construction will give clues as to where the U.S. military will be stationed in the future.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to raise military spending by $700 billion -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and curb domestic programs from health to education.
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The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors have determined.
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The sheer incompetence of the Bush administration apparently knows no bounds. This week we learn that the number of our troops on the ground in Iraq was insufficient to secure 380 tons of unusually powerful
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&quot;the crisis is now,&quot; President Bush said recently -- is the domestic version of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Could it be that I am hearing the same sense of false urgency?
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Cheap, reliable atom bombs strangely unpopular The US Congress has decided not to fund development of new nuclear warheads until a firm US nuclear-weapons roadmap is in place.â¦
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What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than $100 billion will work.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 13--The secretary of defense has revised his budget request for weapons destruction programs in Pueblo and Kentucky, asking for another $54 million in the 2008 federal budget.   Sen.