Posted on 07/16/2002 10:43:50 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Embroiled as Washington is this summer in battles over the president's proposed Department of Homeland Security and corporate America's scandalous misdeeds, it hardly caused a blip on the capital's radar screen when the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty expired last month. There were indeed a few celebrations among the treaty's critics, but its supporters were remarkably silent. As a presidential candidate, George W. Bush had announced his intention to withdraw from the ABM treaty, which had been signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972, and as president, he followed through on his promise.
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