Giving Away the Farm: Bush Caves to India on Nuke Deal

[ProSense]

Rep. Ed Markey

03.03.2006

Giving Away the Farm: Bush Caves to India on Nuke Deal

"This is Santa Claus negotiating. The goal seems to have been to give away as much as possible."-George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

With one simple move yesterday, the President blew a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by for over a generation.

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Today, the President gave a speech in New Delhi defending his complete capitulation to the Indian Government's demands for a special exemption from U.S. and international nuclear nonproliferation law. Sadly, it was


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The President argued that the India nuclear deal will strengthen the security and the economies of both nations.

He is wrong. We do not need to grant India special exemptions from nuclear nonproliferation rules in order to have a strong security relationship with India and assist India in further developing and expanding its economy. India already has a strong geopolitical basis for developing close bilateral ties with the United States. Both countries are democracies, both already are major markets for one another's goods and services, and both share common security interests.



The President also argued that the India nuclear deal will reduce the risk of proliferation.

He is wrong. By caving in to the Indian demand that they be allowed access to advanced nuclear technology without having to accept full-scope international safeguards, the President has blown a giant hole through the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. We cannot expect countries like Iran and North Korea to comply with the rules when we help India break them. If we adopt special rules for our friends, we can expect Russia and China to adopt special rules for their friends. "Bilateral Special Exemptions" will replace the standards of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and a nuclear chaos of no rules at all will be the end result.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/giving-away...

[MadMaddie]

1. Can he be impeached for this....for the love of God...

at the rate he is going he will just hand over our ballistic sites and locations....The guy is stupider then a rock...wait a rock just stays where it is and doesn't do anything....sigh.....

He also said that the US will be getting Mangos....out of the deal...

[nursenwhite]

2. Gotta have those mangoes

Hey when everyone is blowing us up, we can sit in a bunker
underground and eat those mangoes!

[newyawker99]

8. Hi nursenwhite!!

Welcome to DU!!

[atommom]

3. See this article too, from the Asia Times.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[pansypoo53219]

4. the Midas touch of shit

strikes again.

[ProSense]

5. From India to Pakistan to Afghanistan to Iraq to wherever ,

Bush is a failure.

Pakistani Forces, Militants Clash; 49 Dead

By BASHIRULLAH KHAN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 59 minutes ago

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The violence came as President Bush visited the capital, Islamabad, about 190 miles to the northeast, and voiced solidarity with Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in fighting terrorism.

Pakistan has deployed about 80,000 troops along the Afghan frontier but has failed to establish government control in tribal regions that have resisted outside influence for centuries.

Waziristan is known as a hotbed of al-Qaida and Taliban militants who draw support from the local Pashtun tribal people. Many of the rebellious tribesmen involved in Saturday's unrest were believed to be Islamic students who are sympathetic with the hard-line Taliban militia.

Military officials said 45 people, including foreign militants, were killed in Wednesday's attack by helicopter gunships and ground forces on Saidgi, about 10 miles from Miran Shah. The tribesmen claim local people died in the attack.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_on_re_as/pakista...

[Sensitivity]

6. More U.S. Flag-Burners in India & Pakistan than whole Arab World

"War of Terror" "Stop Iranian Nukes" "Block Arab Ports" .... It is all a
NeoCon manipulation. Could it be any more obvious.

[BigYawn]

7. Most natural bonding between world's oldest (USA) & largest (India)

democracies is finally taking place....ABOUT TIME!!

India has 200 Million people classified as middle
class. That is larger than the US! India also has
more English people than the US!!
During cold war era, the two countries butted heads
often since India refused to join either side.

The stock market index in India has TRIPLED in the last
5 years. Their economy is growing more than twice as
fast as US. American businesses are drooling at the
prospects of exploiting the huge market in India.

India also has an independent judiciary system, a legal
protection for intellectual property, and is a stable
continuous democracy going back almost 60 years. All of
these conditions are missing in China, the other 800 lb
gorilla in Asia.