Administration Diverges on Missile Defense

Complexity Digest 2007.41 - 18

27-Oct-2007

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Administration Diverges on Missile Defense, Washington Post

Excerpts: Bush Pushes for System in Europe; Gates Urges 'Definitive Proof' of Iranian Threat

President Bush said yesterday that a missile defense system is urgently needed in Europe to guard against a possible attack on U.S. allies by Iran, while Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested that the United States could delay activating such a system until there is "definitive proof" of such a threat.

Source: Administration Diverges on Missile Defense
[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102300706.html ], Michael Abramowitz, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 07/10/24