Slamming the Door on Pentagon Neo-Cons by MARTIN SCHRAM

"Quietly but decisively, President Bush's top White House national-security and budget officials took a major step forward in the name of America's homeland security. They did it by just saying no to the Pentagon neo-cons who - with costs of the un-won Iraq peace still soaring - had recommended a step backward in funding the program to secure Russia's nuclear-weapons materials that remain vulnerable to terrorists. "