Missile defense system has no target date

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, July 2, 2002 | By Bill Gertz

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The threat from long-range missiles continues to grow, but the Pentagon will not set an exact date for when the United States will deploy a missile defense system, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.

"Our position on this is that we're not going to set artificial deadlines," Mr. Rumsfeld said in an interview at the Pentagon last week with reporters and editors of The Washington Times.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2002

Quote of the Day by Southack

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It's certainly more important to give Ted Kennedy his education bill than provide a defense for us. But of course that campaign pledge means more again than our defense.