Bush's budget plan for 2006

• Domestic security at the Homeland Security Department and other agencies would go from $30.6 billion in 2005 to $29.6 billion in 2006, a 3 percent drop.
• The Veterans Affairs Department would fall 3.4 percent from $29.7 billion in 2005 to $28.7 billion.
• The Defense Department would grow 5.2 percent to $422.7 billion in 2006, and the Justice Department would increase 4.3 percent to $19.5 billion in 2006.

Is this really a budget that will protect the United States? A lot of people like Bush because he is allegedly "strong on defense", yet he cuts the nations front line defense? Homeland Security controls the coasts, the borders, the airports. Bush may say he's interested in protecting the country, but only so far as it promotes the interests of his rich friends. I wonder how the Department of Defense will spend that money. Lucrative new defense contracts perhaps?

CNN.com - Sources: Major terror attack possible this summer - May 26, 2004:

Although there is no specific target, time or date for the possible attack, the information is the culmination of intelligence that has been known and gathered over time -- and it is the assessment that is new, the sources said.

Given this administrations past with non-specific threats, it looks like they might not be able to protect us against this one, right? It seems that there isn't actually any new intelligence to spur this warning, just a desire to remind the public that they need to be afraid and that the Bush administration is doing a fantastic job of protecting us.