On the recordFebruary 15, 1995
the one thing is manifested in two words, ``shall deploy.'' I would say to the gentleman, once we have made the policy decision to deploy, at that point we then go through the process of what type of deployment will take place. I think that is reasonable and logical. I would offer to my friend that when President Kennedy said ``We are going to go to the moon,'' he did not first try to decide what kind of rocket it was going to take, he did not have the analysts come in and try to cost the thing out for 20 years. He set that as a policy, and we fleshed the policy out. I do think it is relevant that the Secretary of Defense said ``You can fulfill this thing for $5 billion if you do it against a thin attack,'' so once we have made the policy judgment to deploy, and this is a very important amendment, because the Republican bill, the House bill, the Armed Services bill, does say ``shall deploy,'' and we then flesh that out.
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