Posted on 04/03/2008 6:03:30 AM PDT by tlb
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - President Bush won NATO's endorsement Thursday for his plan to build a missile defense system in Europe over Russian objections. The proposal also advanced with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install a missile tracking site for the system in their country.
NATO leaders were adopting a communique stating that "ballistic missile proliferation poses an increasing threat to allied forces, territory and populations." It also will recognize "the substantial contribution to the protection of allies ... to be provided by the U.S.-led system," according to senior American officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the statement's release.
The statement calls on all NATO members to explore ways in which the planned U.S. project, to be based in Poland and the Czech Republic, can be linked with future missile shields elsewhere. It says leaders should come up with recommendations to be considered at their next meeting in 2009, the officials said.
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No! The credit is entirely Reagan's ... if you'll remember both Bush and his father cut back on the SDI funds when they came into office. It was only after 9-11 and the "Axis of Evil" revalations from intel sources and the 2002 SOTU speech that Bush rededicated monies in his budget proposals to Congress.
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This is how the headline should have read. Does that make you feel better?
if you'll remember both Bush and his father cut back on the SDI funds when they came into office.
No, I don't remember. Gotta link?
Bush
Wins
Again!
Google: "Bush reduces Reagan's SDI funding" you ought to find it...
When Bush was sworn in as president in January 2001, he quickly moved to increase missile defense development, pushing deployment of a small system based in Alaska that could intercept a small number of ICBMs launched at the continental United States. In December 2001, Bush announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the ABM Treaty. Such a move was necessary if the United States was going to test more advanced systems that would otherwise violate the treaty.
Wow...and just this morning I heard on cnn that Bush has “failed” in his efforts to get this done.
DEPLOYMENT, a bit different than RDT&E isn't it? Reagan's vision (and funding proposal) was for research, development, testing and evaluation of an eventual (earthwide) systems...both "Read My Lips" and "Mission Accomplished" Bushclowns decreased the funding!
If I had fallen asleep in 1988 and had just awakened, I'd think I was nuts. How far we've come in 20 years!
The Poles and Czechs have got some of the biggest cajones in Europe.
You beat me to it.
You must have been the only one watching CNN.
The Clinton administration, to their undeserved benefit, paniced when the North Koreans launched a 4 stage missile capable of reaching anywhere in the US. According to the Clinton “Peace Dividend” theory, no nation was going to ever again threaten any one else again. The results of this panic was a speed up on the design of a new x-band early warning radar to be built on Shemya. That did not happen mainly due to high construction costs at the end of the world. Bush built the radar on a towable oil rig configuration which was to th towed around South America on to Shemya. I lost track of it a few years ago when it was parked in Hawaii for some kind of repair.
According to my memory, your paragraph pretty much summarizes what happened when Bush II was elected. Effort was almost immediately directed toward the design and expedited construction of the Alaska and Vandenburg facilities.
But, but, I thought all of Europe and the enlightened world hated George Bush? How can this be?
Wins
Again!"
Good deal!
Clears that up. Thanks!
I'm fine with somebody smartening up a little late. Compare the two Dems running right now, who still haven't gotten a clue 7 years after 9/11.
President Bush won NATO's endorsement Thursday for his plan to build a missile defense system in Europe over Russian objections. The proposal also advanced with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install a missile tracking site for the system in their country.Putin, about your saber-rattling, natural gas blackmail, assassinations of opponents in European countries...
Amen!
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