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 of actions Bush took in his eight years in office, “our nation, our troops and our allies are safer from ballistic missile threats,” Ellison stated.
On Bush’s watch, the United States developed a limited capability to defeat missiles launched by North Korea, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, Ellison noted. And the American military is pressing to construct a European Missile Defense system to annihilate any missiles launched from the Middle East, such as from Iran.
Iran is producing nuclear materials, and North Korea has produced nuclear weapons, even detonating one atomic bomb in an underground test.