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Bush in "Fantasyland"

Bush in "Fantasyland": "'President Bush is rushing to deploy a technology that does not work against a threat that does not exist,' Cirincione says. 'Iran is at least 5 to 10 years away from the capability to build a nuclear weapon and at least that far from having a missile that could hit Europe let alone the US. And anti-missile systems are still nowhere near working despite $150 billion spent since the 1983 Star Wars program started and years of phony tests staged to demonstrate ‘progress' and ‘success.'' "

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