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Jan. 2009 - barack hussein obama sworn in as President of the United States

Feb. 2009 - Iran successfully launched a satellite into orbit using a rocket with technology similar to that used in long-range ballistic missiles...

April 2009 - North Korea tests ballistic missile technology...

April 2009 - obama Administration reduces our ballistic-missile budget by $1.4 billion...

May 2009 - Iran test fires a 1,200-mile solid-fueled ballistic missile...

May 2009 - North Korea successfully carries out its second underground nuclear test...

July 2009 - North Korea fired several short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan...

Sep. 2009 - obama cancels missile defense plans for Eastern Europe

President Obama promised he would win America friends where, under George W. Bush, it had antagonists. The reality is that the U.S. is working hard to create antagonists where it previously had friends.

That's one conclusion to draw from President Obama's decision yesterday to scrap a missile-defense agreement the Bush Administration negotiated with Poland and the Czech Republic. Both governments took huge political risks—including the ire of their former Russian overlords—in order to accommodate the U.S., which wanted the system to defend against a possible Iranian missile attack. Don't expect either government to follow America's lead anytime soon.

"If the Administration approaches us in the future with any request, I would be strongly against it," Jan Vidim, a conservative Czech lawmaker who voted for the system, told the Associated Press.

March 2012 - obama tells President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia that he would have “more flexibility” to negotiate on the delicate issue of missile defense after the November election.

"...it’s important for him to give me space,” Mr. Obama could be heard saying to Mr. Medvedev, according a reporter from ABC News, who was traveling with the president.

Mr. Obama then elaborated in a portion of the exchange picked up by the cameras: “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”

“I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” Mr. Medvedev said, referring to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, who just won an election to succeed Mr. Medvedev.

Aug. 2012 - Iran test fires a new version of its Fateh 110 short-range missile ... the newer missile can hit "enemy" targets in neighboring countries, and targets at sea in the Persian Gulf.

Nov. 2012 - obama reelected

March 2013 - The United States has effectively canceled the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system that was fiercely opposed by Russia...

Feb. 2014 - Iran's military has successfully test-fired two new domestically made missiles ... one of them was a long-range ballistic missile with radar-evading capabilities...

Feb. 2014 - North Korea launched four Scud missiles into the sea off its eastern coast...

Feb. 2014 - Russia invades Ukraine, obama goes to Happy Hour

March 2014 - Russia successfully test-fires an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions high over its seizure of control in the Crimea and its threat to send more forces to its neighbor Ukraine...

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