Joe Lieberman

Let me ask about the Crusader, which we talked about briefly.

We are not backing away from it one iota here.

There is the $1.7 billion shortfall, and I know that the Army put more money into this fiscal year 2003 budget.

I do believe that this is the year of decision for Comanche.

Why would it not make more sense to limit modernization to fewer than the three and a third divisions in the counter-attack corps, and, again, take that money and fully fund the Objective Force?

So the bottom line in balancing the risk, in what I know is your desire to get to the Objective Force, you do not feel you can cut that below the six IBCTs?

We are from Congress and we are here to help.

You could probably do it with the other services, as well--that though the $48 billion increase proposed for the DOD budget is large, you can make a case to go higher than that.

We want to see that this is a realistic plan that does not have too much risk associated with it.

We know you have to take that risk, but the risk seems to be pretty much loaded on the Legacy Force, and not the modernizing.

I think Senator Lieberman and I--we have responsibility not just for the Army here, but other programs and other services--

We need to flesh this out and understand the levels of risk and what decisions are being made.

We support you fully and I think we have backed it up with more money from this subcommittee than from the last two administrations.

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