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We need a 'weapons BRAC'
The American defense community stands at a crossroads. The need to trim the defense budget, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently put it, is a "matter of simple arithmetic and political reality." Meanwhile, this year's defense authorization bill,...Tags: Military Equipment, Weaponry, Budgets and Budgeting, Dick Armey, National Security
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Automakers look to Obama for aid
Associated PressDetroit automakers and their allies in Congress said yesterday that Barack Obama's victory could help U.S. automakers line up federal funding needed for them to survive the current economic slump. Obama made it clear during his campaign that he...Tags: Detroit, Harry Reid, John McCain, Weather Reports, George Bush
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The 'bupe' fix
Sun reportersThere's a new narcotic on the street in Baltimore and other communities - and taxpayers helped put it there. The hexagonal orange pills some users call "bupe" are championed as an exceptional treatment for heroin and pain-pill addicts. Federal...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Police Arrests, Donovan, Madison (Dane, Wisconsin), Medicaid
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172,000 new tourniquets ordered for U.S. soldiers
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Army has ordered an additional 172,000 modern tourniquets for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it will begin distributing them next month, with the expectation that each soldier will be equipped with the life-saving device sometime...Tags: U.S. Army, Hemorrhaging, Illinois, Democratic Party, Iraq
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Probe urged of policy on tourniquets
Sun National StaffMembers of the U.S. Senate called on the Pentagon and Army officials yesterday to investigate why soldiers in Iraq continue to go into battle without the modern tourniquets that military leaders told them to carry two months ago - and that military...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Army, Hospitals and Clinics, Blood, Hemorrhaging
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Army to distribute tourniquets to troops sooner than planned
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Faced with pressure from Congress, the Army has decided to quickly dispatch modern tourniquets to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and those soldiers set to deploy, more than two years after military doctors recommended that every soldier carry...Tags: Democratic Party, Iraq, U.S. Army, Defense, Surgery
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More Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, Army finds
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Army investigators told Congress yesterday that a far greater number of Iraqi detainees at Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib prison - ranging from two dozen to as many as 100 - were hidden from the International Red Cross at the behest of the...Tags: Al-Qaeda, John McCain, Diplomacy, Skin Cancer Foundation, U.S. Military
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U.S. continues its air assault on Afghanistan terror targets
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - For a second day, U.S. planes and ships lighted up the skies over Afghanistan after nightfall yesterday, attacking airfields, ground troops and military facilities of the Taliban regime and training camps run by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida...Tags: Lawyers, Al-Qaeda, Tom Ridge, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Dick Cheney
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Bush scolds Congress for endangering military
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - An angry President Bush administered a public tongue-lashing to Congress yesterday, saying disclosure by lawmakers of sensitive intelligence to the press could imperil American military personnel. "I want Congress to hear loud and clear,...Tags: Osama bin Laden, Lawyers, Executive Branch, Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency
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White House asks Congress to back force
Sun National StaffPresident Bush formally asked Congress yesterday for broad authorization to "use all means," including force, to disarm and topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, regardless of whether the United Nations supports such action. "If you want to keep the...Tags: Diplomacy, Constance A Morella, Tim Johnson, Iraq, Barbara Boxer
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Abuse incident foreshadowed Abu Ghraib
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - At least two U.S. senators received letters and other contacts nearly a year ago from relatives of four Army reservists who were accused of abusing detainees at the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq, detailing dangerous conditions and low...Tags: Punishment, Iraq, Defense, Republican Party, Prisoners and Detainees
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Gore gives jolt to Iraq debate with denunciation of Bush plan
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Al Gore thrust himself into the debate over Iraq yesterday with a blazing indictment of President Bush's policies, warning that they could weaken the global war on terrorism and undermine American leadership around the world. The former vice...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Al Gore, Executive Branch, Personal Weapon Control, Barbara A. Mikulski
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