11.   And Bush is asking for hikes in spending for the military, including a sophisticated and expensive missile defense system.

12.   And money, he said, will be wasted on a defense system that will bluster about foreign threats while offering little protection against domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh.

13.   And that means we must rebuild our military instead of run it down and we must move ahead with the missile defense system.

14.   And while Clinton wants to commit a half-billion dollars to research a missile defense system, Dole wants to start production as soon as possible.

15.   Any missile defense system should be funded rationally and according to clearly defined benchmarks for success.

16.   As in his talk on foreign affairs last week, McCain called for building a missile defense system that would also be extended to American allies around the globe.

17.   At issue was a State Department waiver for a subsidiary of the Raytheon company that wanted to sell air defense systems to the Taiwanese navy.

18.   At the same forum, Bush also unveiled a national security policy that would reduce the number of US nuclear weapons while creating a costly new missile defense system.

19.   Attacking the sophisticated air defense systems of the Yugoslav Army was also less inviting in another respect.

20.   Before traveling here to Okinawa, Putin met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin to discuss the U.S. missile defense system.