Bush's priority is with defense spending not education, environment or medicine,,,,,,,,,,,.............The proposed 2002 defense budget submitted to Congress on June 27 provides $8.3 billion for missile defense, a nearly 40% increase over the current budget. It would be expected to take tens of billions more before a system is ready for use, although the administration has provided no firm figure.
For starters, the Pentagon is piecing together a plan to create a Pacific "test bed" — a collection of test ranges from Fort Greeley and Kodiak Island in Alaska to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands — to pursue more realistic missile intercept tests. |
