Carl Levin actually said...

Prior to the decision to deploy, did Secretary Rumsfeld ask you for advice regarding the military utility of the national missile defense sy...

I think these proposals, taken together or separately, would undermine the ability of the uniformed military to provide independent military...

the absence of a long-range target that will be able to exercise the Cobra Dane radar will preclude a system-level flight test of the 2004 n...

So are you saying that if we make a proposal along this line it would be for patrols in a non-hostile environment?