Bush's missile shield for Europe dumped
Posted: September 18, 2009 at 4:42 a.m.
President Barack Obama said Thursday at the White House that technology advances and a revised view of the threat posed by Iran drove his decision on a missile defense system.
President Barack Obama is scrapping a Bush administration plan to install a missile-defense network in Poland and the Czech Republic for a new system he said would be more flexible and better able to counter threats to the U.S. and Europe.
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