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To: Mannie who wrote (49880)	2/1/2006 7:30:47 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104202

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To: Mannie who wrote (49880)	2/3/2006 1:27:02 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104202

dude- there goes all the oreos: 439 billion PLUS 120 billion more for war 2006 abcnews.go.com WASHINGTON Feb 3, 2006 — President Bush's 2007 budget seeks a nearly 5 percent increase in Defense Department spending, to $439.3 billion, with significantly more money for weapons programs, according to senior Pentagon officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press. The budget figures, to be unveiled next week, come as the Pentagon prepares to release a separate long-range strategy to reshape the military into a more agile fighting force better able to fight terrorism, while still preserving its ability to wage large conventional wars. More than a year in the making and scheduled to be released Friday, the strategy review represents the broader thinking that guides how the dollars are spent. It does not call for the elimination of any of the largest weapons programs, as some had expected. Instead it proposes cutting some smaller programs such as the E-10 surveillance plane, reducing the size of the Air Force, overhauling the Army National Guard and increasing the number of special operations forces like the Green Berets, whose role in the global war on terrorism is rapidly expanding. The budget, meanwhile, would include $84.2 billion for weapons programs, a nearly 8 percent increase, including billions of dollars for fighter jets, Navy ships, helicopters and unmanned aircraft. The total includes a substantial increase in weapons spending for the Army, which would get $16.8 billion in the 2007 budget, compared with $11 billion this year. Senior defense officials provided the totals on condition of anonymity because the defense budget was not being released publicly until Monday. The figures did not include about $50 billion that Bush administration officials said Thursday they would request as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. The administration said war costs for 2006 would total $120 billion. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld would not provide any details of the budget Thursday but called it appropriate. "We have been able to fund the important things that are needed. It is a sizable amount of money," Rumsfeld said.