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Defense Bill To Recommend Strategic Pause On European Missile Defense Site

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Friday, November 16th, 2007

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Removing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from the Pentagon has enabled Democrats to shift opinion about building a third ballistic missile defense site in Europe, a leading Democratic lawmaker said this week. The administration was rushing ahead with construction of the missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect against missiles coming from Iran, but the plan did not protect all of Europe and agreements about the site are still not ratified, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), the…

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