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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-21-04 08:55 AM
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Bush Vs. Kerry: Tackling the Threat of Nuclear War
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Here's where JFK2 can bring up BCCI and how he helped stop terror funding network -- the same one Poppy Bush and the BFEE made sooooo much money on.

Bush Vs. Kerry: Tackling the Threat of Nuclear War

By Louis Charbonneau
Thu Oct 21, 2004 07:35 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - Thirteen years after the end of the Cold War the two main candidates for the U.S. presidency agree that the threat of nuclear attack has never been greater.

The biggest nuclear shock of 2004 was the discovery of a global black market run by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that supplied sensitive atomic technology and know-how to Iran, Libya and North Korea -- and possibly other countries.

That has made proliferation an important campaign issue of the U.S. campaign, with Democrats and Republicans exchanging verbal blows over who is most fit for the task of confronting rogue nations and preventing them from getting the bomb.

The campaign of Democratic challenger John Kerry accused President Bush this week of sitting "on the sidelines" and allowing the nuclear threats posed by Iran and North Korea to increase.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6568577
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