Bush considers fighter procurement figures 'a bit much,' adviser says

Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush might cut the roughly 3,000 F/A-18E/F, F-22 and Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that the Pentagon plans to buy, Bush adviser Richard Armitage said this week. Armitage, a former assistant secretary of defense, said that Bush hasn't settled on a specific...

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