Representative
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

RE: Missile Defense is wasting billions that could be spent on real security!

Dear Representative ,

I urge you to join the 49 Admirals and Generals who recently called on President Bush to postpone deployment of missile defense and to redirect the funds to programs that provide real security.

The Bush administration's rush to deploy an untested missile defense system puts our nation doubly at risk. First, the CIA has said it will spark a new round of nuclear proliferation, even though the Pentagon admits it is uncertain the system will work. Secondly, it diverts funds from far more urgent security needs, like keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists and protecting U.S. ports.

The Admirals and Generals pointed out in a letter to the President that U.S. technology, already deployed, can pinpoint the source of a ballistic missile launch, making it extremely unlikely that any state would dare to attack the U.S. or allow a terrorist to do so from its territory with a missile armed with a weapon of mass destruction, thereby risking annihilation from a devastating U.S. retaliatory strike. They stated that the $53 billion budgeted for missile defense over the next five years, with much more to come, will do little or nothing to protect Americans from much more credible terrorist threats. They also reminded him that the General Accounting Office pointed out in a recent report that only two of 10 critical technologies of the ground-based strategic mid-course ballistic missile defense (GMD) system components have been verified as workable by adequate developmental testing, and that deploying a highly complex weapons system prior to testing it adequately can increase costs significantly.

Please do everything in your power, including speaking out on the floor of Congress, and supporting federal budget provisions, to indefinitely postpone funding and deployment of the wasteful, unproven and destabilizing missile defense program.

I will continue to closely monitor your actions on this vital issue.

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