U.S. Congress Rejects New Nuclear Weapons Funds (BIG Bush Loss!)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress denied the Bush administration funds to study a new generation of nuclear weapons, omitting the money from a huge mop-up spending bill it passed over the weekend, lawmakers said on Monday.

The final $388 billion spending bill did not include the $36.6 million President Bush sought to study so-called bunker-busting nuclear weapons that would be used to destroy underground facilities as well as smaller nuclear arms with half the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The White House said it had no plans to build such weapons, but wanted to keep the door open to their development to deal with emerging threats.

Democrats said just considering the weapons takes nuclear warfare out of the realm of the unthinkable and encourages adversaries of the United States to develop such weapons.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=5&u=/nm/20041122/sc_nm/nuclear_congress_dc

[JaneDoughnut]

1. Thank you!

Non-proliferation begins at home. It's good to see Congress finally take a responsible position.

[villagechild]

13. excellent news

spoiled rotten bullys won't find their nukes toys under the tree this year, whaaaaaaaa, good for US!!

[Tempest]

2. Corrected link

http://snipurl.com/atm2

[Khephra]

7. Already corrected

But thanks!

:hi:

[LynnTheDem]

3. Link broken...Never mind!

Can you repost the link please? Would like to pass this one onto others. :)

Thanks1 :)

[Chimpanzee]

4. Bully!!

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Well, let's see if military toilet seats get more expensive...

[Ima]

14. true

Don't forget those 'nuts and bolts'.

[Straight Shooter]

6. "white House said it had no plans ... wanted to keep the door open"

In other words, the nanosecond they get the opportunity, they'll jump on it.

What the Democrats need to impress upon the public is that as far as the Repubs are concerned, nuclear warfare is not in the "realm of the unthinkable," it's actually in their best and brightest fantasies.

[Ernesto]

20. Oh sure

just like the war authorization bill when chimp said that "the last thing he would do" was put our troops jepardy.

[Streetdoc270]

8. just need to get rid of the yhat

Congress should supply some phone calls to the wounded military before giving the Pres a boat...

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

:kick:

[Raiden]

10. Good stuff!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[w4rma]

11. I wasn't expecting this. I bet they'll sneak it in another way. (nt)

[Brundle_Fly]

16. 75,000

dollar hammers.

[burrowowl]

12. The U$ and Russia

already have tactical nukes. The U$ has MOAB. No need for more. $36.6 megabucks is piddly-doo. The cruise missiles used to hit Iraq cost $500,000 each so the 36.6 megabucks means 19 of the things. This doesn't count transport, maintenance and personnel to service and fire them.

[GetTheRightVote]

15. thanks be to God that this did not pass, do not want a WWIII

[Supersedeas]

17. AwwAwwaa....no poppie gun for lil' Bushie for Xmas, sad lil' bit

[sangh0]

18. But, but, but

I thought the spineless Dems NEVER fight back

[Rose Siding]

19. Here's the WP story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1014900&mesg_id=1014900