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Obering ‘Encouraged’ Obama Backs Missile Defense; Iranian Missiles Worrisome

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Thursday, November 13th, 2008

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By Dave Ahearn The departing leader of U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs said he is "encouraged" that President-elect Barack Obama has become more welcoming toward missile defense programs. Two separate Iranian tests of new, longer-range missiles able to strike European cities shows there is no time to lose in developing missile defense systems, and any congressional move to "walk away" from supporting those programs would "severely hurt our ability to defend our deployed [U.S.] forces and our friends and…

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