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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-04 12:50 PM
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Senate votes money for (maybe) new nuclear weapons-really they did
Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 01:03 PM by donsu
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3572877&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

The United States Senate on Tuesday backed the Bush administration's plan to study a new generation of low-yield and earth-penetrating nuclear weapons, rejecting concerns that the research could spur an arms race.

Voting 55-42, the Senate defeated an amendment pushed by Democrats to slash US$36.6 million ($59.4 million) 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 yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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"This country ought to be leading in exactly the other direction," said Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.
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nuclear weapons are obscene

if any Dem. Senators voted for this then they are obscene too.


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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-04 12:55 PM
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1. Anybody know
How Kerry and Edwards voted?
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