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Sunday, March 05, 2006

"Mr. Bush might as well have tied a pretty red bow around his India nuclear deal and mailed it as a gift to Tehran."

maybe - although i doubt it - the title of this nyt editorial reflects some inkling of bushco's real agenda...


i've been saying all along that their REAL agenda has nothing to do with increasing national security, fostering world peace or stamping out terrorism... instead, they are intent on doing whatever it takes to keep fear and threat levels high which, in turn, allows greater opportunity to manipulate a fearful citizenry...
Fast-forward to Thursday's nuclear deal with India, in which President Bush agreed to share civilian nuclear technology with India despite its nuclear weapons programs and its refusal to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

This would be a bad idea at any time, rewarding India for flouting the basic international understanding that has successfully discouraged other countries from South Korea to Saudi Arabia from embarking on their own efforts to build nuclear weapons. But it also undermines attempts to rein in Iran, whose nuclear program is progressing fast and unnerving both its neighbors and the West.

The India deal is exactly the wrong message to send right now, just days before Washington and its European allies will be asking the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran's case to the United Nations Security Council for further action. Iran's hopes of preventing this depend on convincing the rest of the world that the West is guilty of a double standard on nuclear issues. Mr. Bush might as well have tied a pretty red bow around his India nuclear deal and mailed it as a gift to Tehran.

another smashing success...

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