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From: Suma	10/4/2004 2:48:30 PM
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DEFENSE -- MISSILE SYSTEM MAY MISFIRE: AP reports the military is in the final stages of readying (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-03-missile-defense_x.htm) the Bush administration's favorite pet project, the national ballistic missile defense system. Cost: $100 billion. Probable effectiveness: likely " as low as 20 percent (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58080-2004Sep28.html) ." Key components of the system are "years behind schedule," and "flight tests, plagued by delays, have yet to advance beyond elementary, highly scripted events." President Bush has said his system would allow America to "say to those tyrants who believe they can blackmail America and the free world: you fire; we're going to shoot it down (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040817-6.html) ." Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former chief of testing, responded: "Of course we don't have any capability to do that. For the president to sort of dare them (to fire missiles) is really misleading and even reckless (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-03-missile-defense_x.htm) ."

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