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On the Brink

W. and his group of war mongering profiteers formulated this deal with India to supply India with nuclear technology and nuclear fuel for “civilian” use. In exchange, India agrees to allow inspection of its “civilian” reactors, apparently to ensure that they are not being used to produce weapons-grade plutonium. But what difference does that make when India has designated some reactors “military,” which are not open to inspection and in which weapons-grade plutonium production is the primary function?

That’s no deal. It provides more nuclear fuel, which will replace fuel presently in the “civilian” reactors; and that nuclear fuel now in "civilian" reactors will be sent to the “military” reactors for processing, allowing production of more nuclear weapons of mass destruction. I guess the U.S. is looking for India to protect a foundering USA from the new red menace to India’s north and east, China, in a familiar scenario that brought unmitigated terror into the lives of American children in the 1950’s and 60’s, bringing the U.S. and the old red menace, the Soviet Union, to the brink of nuclear war, that of Mutual Assured Destruction.

What’s wrong with this picture?

George W. Bush, consistent with his belief that he has been elected King and anointed by his God Almighty to take us all to the Promised Land, has again ignored or tried to circumvent laws of the United States, laws passed by Congress, and, in fact, the Constitution of the United States of America. This time, forging a new path toward nuclear carnage, he has ignored an Act of Congress outlawing the sale of nuclear technology and nuclear material to countries which are not parties to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the terms of which have been made permanent by the 187 nations that have ratified it. The United States of America is also bound by that treaty, of which the U. S. is a signatory country and which was ratified by a vote of the United States Senate, as required by the Constitution, and which has the force of law in this country. India has never been a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and has been close to nuclear war with neighboring "terror-fighting-ally" Pakistan on countless occasions.

Of course, the President has been granted the power under the Constitution to "make Treaties," but can he make a treaty with India while ignoring what has been happening for the last 40 years in the world vis-a-vis nuclear weapons and the will of the American people? Our only hope is that more than one-third of the Senators have some sense to understand the purpose and philosophy of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and decline to be a party to the madness of King George.

Bush and his advisers are dangerous.

Posted by Bill at March 5, 2006 09:50 AM