Taking India's fight to the Hill

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GH27Df01.html

This is one helluva scary article about the corruption of Bush whitehouse!!!

What seems to worry some Democrats is that both India, historically, and the US, under the Bush administration, have shown a penchant for going it alone - India in defying the international community (including the US) with its tests, the Bush administration in attacking Iraq over the objections of the United Nations and many of its own closest allies. If the Indian and American versions of unilateralism reinforce one another, it will work to the detriment of institutions such as the United Nations and risk turning treaties like the NPT from imperfect but useful mechanisms into increasingly ineffectual ones, Talbott argued.

In short, Talbott, who was engaged in long-winding negotiations with the then-Indian external affairs minister, Jaswant Singh, in the aftermath of the second round of Indian testing of nuclear explosives in 1998 to eventually ease the Clinton administration's relations with India, is making it plain that the Bush-Manmohan agreement is detrimental to the NPT and the UN as a whole. It is likely that Talbott is speaking on behalf of a large number of members of the US Congress, particularly those who belong to the Democratic Party.

The CRS report
The CRS report said: "Observers note that US-India cooperation could have wide-ranging implications for the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, and could prompt other suppliers, like China, to justify their supplying other non-nuclear-weapon states (as defined by NPT), like Pakistan ... There are no measures in this global partnership to restrain India's nuclear weapons program. India has a self-imposed nuclear test moratorium but continues to produce fissile material for its nuclear weapon program, despite support for the Fissile Material Cut off Treaty (FMCT)."

From a technical verification perspective, the report contends, "The existence of India's nuclear weapons program negates potential non-proliferation assurances that nuclear safeguards on civil facilities might provide. A significant question is how India, in the absence of full-scope safeguards (ie IAEA safeguards on every nuclear establishment, military and civil), can provide adequate confidence that US peaceful nuclear technology will not be diverted to nuclear weapons purposes."
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Arms sales in progress
In addition to the nuclear agreement, the new India-US relationship also includes arms purchases by New Delhi. Reports indicate Indian and US officials are preparing to discuss the possible sale to New Delhi of US weaponry - including Aegis missile systems, an amphibious platform dock ship, anti-submarine patrol aircraft and Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 air defense systems. These could be concluded when Lieutenant-General Jeffrey Kohler, the Pentagon's Defense Cooperation Security Agency chief, visits New Delhi next month.

Asia Times Online has reported that the Indian Defense Ministry is negotiating the purchase of the USS Trenton, a decommissioned Austin-class amphibious transport dock, built in 1971 and used in transporting large numbers of troops over long distances.

The Indian navy also wants to buy US Aegis combat systems for its ships. One navy official said the system could monitor large areas of the Indian Ocean, keeping an eye on Chinese ships and submarines. The Aegis system can defend Indian sea-based assets from short- and long-range missiles, added the navy official, who strongly advocated the purchase of this system, news reports claim.

Nonetheless, since so much is at stake, New Delhi cannot afford to sit by quietly and leave the lobbying at the Hill entirely to the Bush administration. This is the reason the big guns were hired to punch some holes in the opposition battery.

By recruiting BG&R, India has hired a number of powerful people linked to the Bush administration. There is no question that Blackwill has a special service to offer BG&R with regard to India. Considered a highly successful ambassador, Blackwill mesmerized Indians with his pro-India and pro-Israel policies.
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From what I can see Blackwill has virtually taken over the New Delhi Government and is making it a haven for money money money!!!

Scary Scary stuff!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. We've sort of become India's unwitting sugar daddies, haven't we?

Sugar daddies in the last stages of Alzheimer's.

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2. Backlash You said it!!! We have given our jobs money and

technological secrets and we just keep giving it more and more and more!!!

I feel like this is a serious nightmare for us!!!

[lovuian]

3. One more time!!!

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