Richardson: U.S. must cut N-weapons as part of global leadership

[struggle4progress]

06:28 PM CST on Thursday, February 8, 2007

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Thursday the United States must lead the way on global struggles by reducing its nuclear weapons, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and dramatically cutting energy use ...

Richardson, now governor of New Mexico, said demonstrating a commitment to multilateral cooperation could start by expanding the U.N. Security Council from its current five permanent members to 10. He said he would grant membership but not veto power to Germany and Japan and representation to Asia, Africa and Latin America, perhaps with countries in those regions rotating the seat.

He also called for the United States to join the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing such emissions "and then go well beyond it." <edit:remove paragraph for LBN> ...

"We need to stop treating diplomatic engagement with others like a reward for good behavior," Richardson said. "The Bush administration's refusal to engage bad regimes has only encouraged and strengthened the most paranoid and hard-line tendencies." ...

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[skipos]

1. Richardson is great. I'd love to see him get the MSM time that HRC,

Obama and Edwards get. He deserves it.

[burrowowl]

2. Go Richardson!

What he needs is wide public exposure!