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Bush budget adds to military, cuts prevention.

Publication: Foreign Policy in Focus
Publication Date: 06-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bush budget adds to military, cuts prevention.(George W. Bush)

Article Excerpt
Voters--Republicans and Democrats alike--are telling pollsters they want, not a modest course correction, not a turned page, but a whole new book. The security budget President Bush proposed today is anything but.

Every year since 2004, according to analysis by the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, published by the Institute for Policy Studies, nearly 90% of security spending, excluding the supplemental appropriations for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has been devoted to achieving security by military force. Spending on prevention tools, including diplomacy, nonproliferation, foreign aid, contributions to international organizations and homeland security put together accounts for only 10% of the security budget. This year is no exception.

This year military spending even excluding...

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