Nervous defense contractors watching elections

WASHINGTON - After years of surging military spending by the Bush administration and a Republican-led Congress, the nation's defense industry is trying to gauge what life would be like if power on Capitol Hill shifts to the Democrats.
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Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, who's in line to take over the chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee, signaled a tough line during a telephone interview on Wednesday, denouncing the Iraq war as "Rumsfeld's folly."

"I'm not going to let the American military be used for a failed political policy," said Abercrombie, who's pressing for a withdrawal of U.S. troops. Asked when the pullout should begin, he responded: "How about this afternoon."
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"We'll hear all these stories about soldiers who have to use their own cell phones to communicate, buying their own body armor," said Coyle, who was once the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer and is now a senior adviser for the Center for Defense Information, a research center. "I would see more emphasis on making sure the soldiers get what they need, number one, and number two, where is the money going if it's not helping the soldier."

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