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Bush Hailed For Developing Missile Defense System

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

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The Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) gave outgoing President Bush a commendation for developing and deploying a multi-layered missile defense system in a world with increasing ballistic threats. MDAA President Riki Ellison lauded Bush for withdrawing the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, or ABM, and for pushing to develop systems able to defeat enemy missiles of various ranges in each of their phases of ballistic trajectory, plus demolishing an out-of-control intelligence satellite as it fell toward Earth. Because…

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