And, while offering no specifics, he added that its response to an "urgent war-fighter need" might even pre-empt the launching of other missions on expendable rockets.
The heroes of Kathryn Bigelow's urgent Iraq War drama belong to a three-man bomb disposal squad led by a cocksure maverick, Sgt William James (played by Jeremy Renner).
And he is in many ways the public face of the conservative side in the most urgent culture-war battle of the day.
This is made more urgent by the war in Afghanistan.
That became all the more urgent once local war lords, like the great Date in northern Japan, converted to Christianity.
It's a nutty, and not very attractive, idea to turn an urgent issue of war and peace over to a commission.
In a war, urgent coverage from CBS News would take precedence over the tournament, which the Viacom-owned network is paying $6 billion to televise through 2013.
But even more than this bravura dramatic writing, the story of Dr Rieux's selfless struggle with the illness, and the different responses of other citizens, colleagues and chance acquaintances, unfolds an urgent allegory of war.
In the absence of a single urgent issue like war or economic crisis, voters were sizing up candidates as managers, stewards and respect-worthy leaders rather than as rallying, agenda-driven politicians.
