President Bush today sent to Congress a $401.7 billion defense budget request to fund the war on terrorism and efforts to retool the military for the 21st century. The fiscal year 2005 request is nearly $22 billion more than the amount Bush requested a year ago for DOD, without taking into consideration FY-04 supplemental funding for military and reconstruction activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last November, Bush signed into law an $87.5 billion FY-04 wartime supplemental for operations in those...
