US religious group blasts START treaty delay

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(AFP)

19 November 2010,

WASHINGTON — Playing off one of the most controversial US political ads ever, a liberal US religious group is warning that failure to ratify a landmark nuclear treaty with Russia could spark an atomic apocalypse.

The American Values Network advertisement shows a little girl counting as she plucks petals from a flower, shifts to an ominous countdown, and ends when the camera zooms in to her pupil to show a nuclear blast and mushroom cloud.

“In a world where terrorists seek to destroy everything we hold dear, Russia’s nuclear weapons cannot be left unmonitored,” says the voiceover. “Tell your senator, we must ratify New START now.”

How tough is it to sell the treaty? "Playing political games with the START Treaty could put nuclear weapons in the hands of this man" over a photo of Ahmadinejad. Put some pressure on those Republican fuckers to do the right thing for a change.