All 50 states require children to receive vaccinations recommended by a government advisory panel before attending school, but all allow exemptions for medical reasons.
That was one of the reasons that General Cartwright, the Joint Chiefs, and the Secretary of Defense recommended we make the changes that were previously announced in our missile defense.
"It is already apparent that the Russian ambassador may have decided, for reasons we don't know, to take a different route from the one we recommended and instead to follow the advice of the Iraqis, " Vershbow said.