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.”

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1. Good on them

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.