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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:52 PM
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So we're giving India nuclear material
First the unreview port deal and now this. Nuclear energy as a solution to India's energy problems is a joke. That this in no way will not end up tied to India's weapons program is a joke. That this President that prides himself on security would allow this scares the crap out of me. I don't trust Bush and I sure as heck don't want to get involved in the Pakistan-India arms race.


Reversing decades of U.S. policy, President Bush ushered India into the world's exclusive nuclear club Thursday with a landmark agreement to share nuclear reactors, fuel and expertise with this energy-starved nation in return for its acceptance of international safeguards.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:54 PM
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1. Oh yeah, and I'm sure that'll go over REALLY well in Pakistan
where they're uneasy about helping us find terrorists in the first place. Shit, is there anything this poser president can't fuck up?
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:01 PM
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2. I think this deal will anger China more than Pakistan n/t
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:27 PM
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7. True!
Why pass up the opportunity to piss off even MORE countries?
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:03 PM
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3. What I don't get
Is that this is the same administration that not too long ago refused to sell India military planes. What conventional weapons aren't to be sold to India but weapons of mass destruction are?
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Tanuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:14 PM
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4. Yeah, but
they're giving us mangoes. Moron B*sh was touting that in his speech yesterday, as if it was a fair exchange for all the lost jobs here.
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:29 PM
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8. and *irradiated* mangos at that
lol
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:21 PM
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5. what i don't get is how american get to decide who should have
nuclear armament and who shouldn't.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:39 PM
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12. Well we can't
but we can certainly decide who we are going to give our nuclear material to.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:26 PM
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6. Why not? We are giving India all of our jobs.
Besides, who are we to decide who gets nuclear material and who doesn't? We happen to be the only country that has ever dropped nukes on someone else. :shrug:

If the world was smart, they would have taken our nuclear material away from us, right after WWII was over, and they still had a chance to. Maybe then the USA wouldn't be so fucking obnoxious across the globe...
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:38 PM
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11. Who is they?
At the end of WWII who exactly was in a position to take our nuclear material away?
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:08 PM
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9. India should be forced to sign the NNP treaty before they get nuclear help
regardless of its purpose - and fuck Bush for his shitting on international treaties (but what else is new).
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:04 PM
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10. No one can resist
the Mango!
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:55 PM
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13. Have You Heard About Los Alamos??
I direct you to go to DemocracyNow.org and see what they were reporting today!

I KNOW I should have checked the info myself before posting, but I think it's Bechtel who will be getting another "sweet" deal, and new nuclear weapons are on the table!!

We. the US of A are actually breaking the law that was signed... you know the Non-Proliferation Treaty?? This corrupt/lying/sneaky/disgusting Administration has plans to make a BIGGER/BETTER & more lethal nuclear weapon.

I realize that this may have been posted before, but today is the first time I heard about it.

Oh, how I just can't stand how much they're getting away with! Scoundrels, ALL of them!!
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