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Bush Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
With details of the deal still under wraps, it appears that at least
one-third of current and planned Indian reactors would be exempt from
International Atomic Energy Agency inspections and that Bush gave in to
Indian demands for "Indian-specific" inspections that would fall far
short of the normal, full-scope inspections.*
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With details of the deal still under wraps, it appears that at least
one-third of current and planned Indian reactors would be exempt from
International Atomic Energy Agency inspections and that Bush gave in to
Indian demands for "Indian-specific" inspections that would fall far
short of the normal, full-scope inspections **originally sought. Worse,
Indian officials have made clear that India alone will decide which
future reactors will be kept in the military category and exempt from
any safeguards. *
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*The deal endorses and assists India's nuclear-weapons program.
US-supplied uranium fuel would free up India's limited uranium reserves
for fuel that otherwise would be burned in these reactors to make
nuclear weapons. This would allow India to increase its production from
the estimated six to 10 additional nuclear bombs per year to several
dozen a year. India today has enough separated plutonium for 75-110
nuclear weapons, though it is not known how many it has actually produced. *
**
*The Indian leaders and press are crowing about their victory over the
United States. For good reason: President Bush has done what Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and his
own father refused to do - break US and international law to aid India's
nuclear-weapons program. In 1974, India cheated on its agreements with
the United States and other nations to do what Iran is accused of doing
now: using a peaceful nuclear energy program to build a nuclear bomb.
India used plutonium produced in a Canadian-supplied reactor to detonate
a bomb it then called a "peaceful nuclear device". In response,
president Richard Nixon and Congress stiffened US laws and Nixon
organized the Nuclear Suppliers Group to prevent any other nation from
following India's example. *
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*Bush has now unilaterally shattered those guidelines, and his action
would violate the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) proscription
against aiding another nation's nuclear-weapons program. It would
require the repeal or revision of several major US laws, including the
US Nonproliferation Act. Nor has he won any significant concessions from
India. India refuses to agree to end its production of nuclear-weapons
material, something the United States, the United Kingdom, France,
Russia and China have already done. *
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*This is where Bush is likely to run into trouble. Republicans and
Democrats in the US Congress are deeply concerned about the deal and the
way it was crafted. Keeping with the Bush administration's penchant for
secrecy, the deal was cooked by a handful of senior officials (one of
whom is now a lobbyist for the Indian government) and never reviewed by
the departments of State, Defense or Energy before it was announced with
a champagne toast by Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Congress was never consulted. Republican committee staff say the first
members heard about it was when the fax announcing the deal came into
their offices. Worse, for the president, this appears to be another give
away to a foreign government at the expense of US national-security
interests. *
**
*Bad example*
*
In addition to breaking US law and shattering long-standing barriers to
proliferation, lawmakers are concerned about the example the
nuclear-weapons deal sets for other nations. The lesson Iran is likely
to draw is simple: if you hold out long enough, the Americans will cave.
All this talk about violating treaties, they will reason, is just smoke.
When the Americans think you are important enough, they will break the
rules to accommodate you. *
**
*Pakistani officials have already said they expect their country to
receive a similar deal, and Israel is surely waiting in the wings. Other
nations may decide that they can break the rules, too, to grant special
deals to their friends. China is already rumored to be seeking a deal to
provide open nuclear assistance to Pakistan - a practice it stopped in
the early 1990s after a successful diplomatic campaign by the United
States to bring China into conformity with the NPT restrictions. Will
Russia decide that it can make an exception for Iran? *
**
*Lawmakers loyal to Bush are already signaling tough times ahead for
this deal. Republican Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the Subcommittee
on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, offered the following
statement after the deal was announced: "There is enthusiastic support
on Capitol Hill for growing US-India ties. However, the US-India
agreement on civil nuclear cooperation has implications beyond US-India
relations. In this process, the goal of curbing nuclear proliferation
should be paramount. Congress will continue its careful consideration of
this far-reaching agreement." *
**
*Royce's subcommittee has oversight and legislative responsibilities
over non-proliferation matters. Republican Senator Richard Lugar,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has made no secret
of his concerns, as has Republican Congressman Henry Hyde, chairman of
the House International Relations Committee. Democratic Congressman
Edward Markey says, "America cannot credibly preach nuclear temperance
from a barstool. We can't tell Iran, a country that has signed the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, that they can't have [uranium]
enrichment technologies while simultaneously carving out a special
exemption from nuclear-proliferation laws for India, a nation that has
refused to sign the treaty." *
**
*This looming congressional battle will pit the proliferation fighters
against the nuclear lobby and the increasingly powerful India lobby.
Companies and countries (including France, Canada and Russia) are lining
up to sell fuel and reactors to India. They will be joined by the US
neo-conservatives who seek to construct an anti-China alliance. For
them, as one architect of the India deal reportedly said, "The problem
is not that India has too many nuclear weapons, it is that they do not
have enough." *
**
*If Bush were riding high in the polls and had a string of
national-security victories behind him, this David-and-Goliath battle
would be won by the nuclear giants. But with sagging popularity, deep
concern over his leadership, and anger at his administration's disregard
for laws and consultation, lawmakers more concerned about proliferation
than profits could block or amend this deal. The president may have made
a fatal error in putting nuclear weapons at the heart of improved
US-India relations. US lawmakers want the latter, but not at the price
of the former. *
**
*Dr Joseph Cirincione (**jcirincione@carnegieendowment.org*
<mailto:jcirincione@carnegieendowment.org>*) is the director for
non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
Washington, DC. *
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
05 Mar 2006 04:17:59 PM |
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"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in
news:ZNadnV4hONAa_JbZRVn-pw@comcast.com:
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
And this differs from the EUnuchs "negotiations" with Iran in what
substantial way? Oh, yeah, India is actually negotiating in good faith
and will abide by its agreements instead of playing us for fools.
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Fred Stone
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"There are security precautions that were taken... One of those was not
informing you of the trip until now," McClellan told reporters.
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| User: "Fester" |
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07 Mar 2006 06:43:31 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in
news:ZNadnV4hONAa_JbZRVn-pw@comcast.com:
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
And this differs from the EUnuchs "negotiations" with Iran in what
substantial way? Oh, yeah, India is actually negotiating in good faith
and will abide by its agreements instead of playing us for fools.
Not to mention such minor details such as the fact that India has had
nukes for quite some time now, is not ruled by a psychotic
Islamo-nutcase with messianic dreams and a declared mission to wipe
another nation off the face of the earth.
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
05 Mar 2006 04:24:17 PM |
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"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ZNadnV4hONAa_JbZRVn-pw@comcast.com...
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
WTF?
Does Bush think we already have a base on the moon, and that he can go live
there?
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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05 Mar 2006 04:32:28 PM |
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Denis Loubet wrote:
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ZNadnV4hONAa_JbZRVn-pw@comcast.com...
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
WTF?
Does Bush think we already have a base on the moon, and that he can go live
there?
Of course. Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
06 Mar 2006 12:46:11 AM |
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In article <ZNadnV4hONAa_JbZRVn-pw@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #Putsch's disasterous "triumph" in India
http://wwwatimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC04Df03.html>
*Buffeted by political turmoil at home, US President George W Bush
sought a foreign-affairs victory in India. To clinch a nuclear-weapons
deal, Bush had to give in to demands from the Indian nuclear lobby to
exempt large portions of the country's nuclear infrastructure from
international inspection.
But we're getting mangoes!
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
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| User: "" |
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05 Mar 2006 06:21:56 PM |
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Michelle Malkin wrote:
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Michelle, first, I don't like Bush one little bit.
Having said that, I also have to laugh every time I see statements like
this. Can you name the political group currently holding, or predicted
to hold, a sufficient number of seats in the US congress to even
initiate 'impeachment proceedings'? No? Do you see enough seats to
actually impeach Bush anywhere? Actually, do you even see what could be
called 'opposition'? Perhaps try to remember that the group supposed to
play opposition supported the patriot act and the war in Iraq and a
number of other Bushist masterpieces. Can you name the so called
'opposition members' now siting in congress calling to start
impeachment? Does their number come even close to what would be needed
for success?
No? Then what do you mean with 'speed up'?
j.m.
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| User: "stoney" |
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08 Mar 2006 09:25:50 PM |
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:09:28 -0500, "Michelle Malkin"
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in alt.atheism
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Impeachment? <peals of laughter>
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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09 Mar 2006 02:36:34 AM |
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"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:09:28 -0500, "Michelle Malkin"
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in alt.atheism
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Impeachment? <peals of laughter>
We'll see who's laughing after November.
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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09 Mar 2006 07:51:11 AM |
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Michelle Malkin wrote:
We'll see who's laughing after November.
Well, first things first, we need to concentrate on November. We need a
nonpartisan federal oversight of the elections.
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| User: "stoney" |
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09 Mar 2006 02:03:10 PM |
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On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:51:11 -0800, DanielSan <daniel-san@myrealbox.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
Michelle Malkin wrote:
We'll see who's laughing after November.
Well, first things first, we need to concentrate on November. We need a
nonpartisan federal oversight of the elections.
Take the Russians' oversight offering.
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| User: "stoney" |
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09 Mar 2006 02:02:39 PM |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:36:34 -0500, "Michelle Malkin"
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in alt.atheism
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:09:28 -0500, "Michelle Malkin"
<hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in alt.atheism
This should help speed up impeachment procedings.
Impeachment? <peals of laughter>
We'll see who's laughing after November.
Sadly, it won't be the populace. :\
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