U.S. under fire at nuclear arms control meeting

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5818684&cKey=1117054265000

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is sending the wrong signal to signatories of the global pact against nuclear weapons by backing out of previous arms control pledges, arms experts and diplomats said on Wednesday.

The 188 parties to the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty are near the end of a monthlong conference that participants said would almost certainly fail to agree on any steps to improve the pact aimed at halting the spread of nuclear arms.

"The chances are very slim," said Abdul Minty, head of South Africa's delegation, "There is a big divide...The U.S. is developing new nuclear weapons and we want to know against whom."

Minty complimented U.S. officials for eventually permitting agenda items they would have preferred to ignore. But he said America's refusal to reaffirm its "unequivocal commitment" to disarmament was problematic for many treaty signatories.

[meganmonkey]

1. But I thought the deal was

that WE get to do whatever the fuck we want, and WE get to tell everyone else what they can and cannot do. Especially if our corporations can make some money off it.

Am I misinformed?

:puke:

[Miss Chybil]

3. Your misinformed only when you say

"our corporations." We belong to the corporations, not the other way around.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Whaaaa? But Bolton is in charge of arms control and he is an ass kicker?

Huh????

[struggle4progress]

6. Today, he's kickin the Nonproliferation Treaty's butt. "Ba-ad treaty!

Hell wit internashunal co-operation! Ya'll kin have mah nukes when ya prizem from my cold dead fingers."

Just wait'll Bolt's at the UN full time ...

[thecrow]

4. Oh thanks Bu$h**

One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the Bush administration would never agree to a pact like the test ban treaty "that limits our options in a state of war."

Some analysts condemned this as irresponsible. "The principle that the U.S. is establishing is that governments can renege on the commitments of their predecessors in office," observed Joseph Cinincione, an arms expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


I feel so much safer now.
Pffffft.

[sweetheart]

5. They will live to regret this mistake in judgement

Nuclear weapons have ONLY ONE PLACE: "Dismantled and Destroyed".

The other place is some day gonna be where you don't want them.

What does it take, to get a dangerous regime to foreswear WMD's?

Perhaps an invasion?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Against whom are the new nuclear weapons?

Against anyone who refuses to hand over the deeds to the oil wells, of course.