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Late last month, former Gov. Howard Dean was in Chicago, running for the Democratic nomination for president, and he harshly critiqued President George W. Bush's defense policy, and his handling of the Iraqi campaign, saying, “as they say in Texas, it is all hat, and no cattle." But documents obtained by Navy News & Undersea Technology from the archives of the office of former Gov. Dean, through Vermont’s Public Records Act (I V.S.A., 315-320), detail an interesting story of Dean's own dealings with the military, and his policy toward the use of Pentagon funds. Dean is now 20 points ahead...