21.   And he challenged Clinton doves to debate missile defense.

22.   And many leaders have urged Bush to proceed more cautiously to ensure that neither Russia nor China feel threatened or isolated by missile defenses.

23.   And finally, Bush has to find a way to pay for missile defenses and military reform and those new private Social Security accounts.

24.   And the administration is also calculating that such moves will persuade the allies and U.S. public that missile defense is not incompatible with some form of arms control.

25.   And if the United States has the money and technology to develop a missile defense, it should do so, they insist.

26.   And it settled for a drastically scaled-down version of missile defense.

27.   And, if they get too associated with missile defense, they could be seen as putting profits ahead of arms reduction.

28.   And with China positioning missile batteries across the Taiwan Strait, would you make a missile defense available to our ally?

29.   And, at the earliest possible date, my administration will deploy missile defenses to guard against attack and blackmail.

30.   Another official, arguing that the report did not necessarily undercut the case for a missile defense, said some of the findings represented worst-case scenarios.