Bigotry! Bush Says India Can Have Nukes But Pakistan Can't (Newsweek)

[kpete]

Bigotry!

Bush sez India can have as many nukes as it wants but Pakistan can't. The only explanation is bigotry.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_03_05_atrios_archive.html#114157747981684570


New Rules for Nukes
As Bush pens a nuclear deal with India, Pakistan's Musharraf is keeping his 'strategic options open.'


By Michael Hirsh
Newsweek

Pakistan, Bush told Musharraf in no uncertain terms, will get no such deal. That is largely because it has been a notorious nuclear proliferator; Pakistan's former chief government scientist, AQ Khan, ran the world's biggest black market in nuclear equipment until a few years ago. Now critics like nuclear expert Robert Einhorn worry that Musharraf may go looking for friends in Beijing. And China may be happy to oblige, since the new U.S.-India strategic relationship is thought to be directed at Beijing's growing power. "As long as India is producing fissile material , Pakistan is going to produce," Einhorn says.

Bush could face a tough fight over approval for the accord in Congress and also within the international Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls uranium exports. Opponents on Capitol Hill from both parties suggested that Bush, in his eagerness for a win after weeks of grim news, had caved to Delhi. "You can't break the rules for India and expect Iran to play by them, or Pakistan or North Korea," said Rep. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

Jehangir Karamat, the Pakistani ambassador to Washington, told NEWSWEEK that Pakistan had no intention of starting an arms race. But he added: "That's the worry. That's the fear. If India ratchets up that kind of race as a result , it would be unfortunate."

The timing of the deal was also unlucky. It was inked only four days before a critical meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, where Washington will renew pressure on Iran to give up a right that Bush has now conceded to Delhi: uranium enrichment. "The message this is sending is that membership in the NPT is a hindrance"—and that if you hold out long enough the Americans will weaken, said an Iranian official who spoke anonymously because he is not permitted to talk on the record to Western media.

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[tjwash]

1. So, the only country that has ever nuked someone else...

...thinks it's A-OK to dictate to the rest of the world who can have nukes. And everyone here in the good old US of A just seems to be just fine with that.

[jrd200x]

2. Hold yer horses everyone, Pakistan HAS nukes

They just can't get in on the deal for Nuk materials that India just got. Pakistan has had nukes for almost ten years. They call it "the Islamic Bomb." No wonder no one wants to give them more.

[Catrina]

4. *lol* ~ that's what I was just thinking. India and Pakistan have been on

the brink of nuclear war at least three times over the past decade, as I recall. Didn't Clinton have to intervene to prevent them from going to war several times?

[blm]

5. You remembered correctly. Too bad most corporate media can't remember

the most important matters around the globe but they can recall every detail about Monica Lewinsky.

[blm]

3. It's HORSESHIT from Bush - Bush1 FACILITATED Pakistani nukes thru BCCI

and this horseshit from Bush2 is meant to deflect from that fact.

Bush1 FACILITATED AQ Khan and his nuclear proliferation and armsdealing network. Why do you think Bush2 hasn't come out harder on the whole AQ Khan deal within Pakistan and UAE?

[htuttle]

6. What? -- can't Pakistan come up with some mangos too?