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2006-03-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-03-29 14:37|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Jim-boy...
Start your education on this issue here
at Policy Review with the article Getting India Right. Then we can continue the discussion about how you have not been Prez since Reagan and its long past time you realized that factiod and shut up!

Posted by 3dc 2006-03-29 16:35|| 2006-03-29 16:35|| Front Page Top

#2 You know - I used to be against the deal with India - I just don't trust India. But now that Carter has come out against it, I am starting to come around to the view that this is a good idea. Because if Carter is against it, it probably is in the American interest.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-29 18:51|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-29 18:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Last year former defense secretary Robert McNamara summed up his concerns in Foreign Policy magazine: "I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous."

You know, Jimmy, I didn't think it was possible, but you came up with somebody to quote who was an even bigger scumbag then you were. And he was an expert on every charecterization he mentioned in the quote.

Posted by tu3031 2006-03-29 18:58|| 2006-03-29 18:58|| Front Page Top

#4 So far India has only rudimentary technology for uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing,

Dubious assumption when one considers that India is loading each of its fast breeder reactors with one ton of plutonium and is enriching uranium to medium level (fuel for a nuclear submarine being built in Vizag).

Nothing rudimentary about that.

And India isn't requesting enrichment or reprocressing technology.. what it wants are entire reactors and fuel. The Indian enrichment plants will be on the military side and will receive nothing. Two of the plutonium reprocessing plants will be placed under IAEA safeguards.

A fissile production cap is not on the cards for India.. not for a decade at least.. when it will have accumulated enough plutonium for about 200 warheads.

Posted by john 2006-03-29 19:07|| 2006-03-29 19:07|| Front Page Top

#5 At the same time, Israel's uncontrolled and unmonitored weapons

Litmus test.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-29 21:13|| 2006-03-29 21:13|| Front Page Top

#6 At the five-year U.N. review conference in 2005, only Israel, North Korea, India and Pakistan were not participating -- three with proven arsenals.

You can see Jimmuh's real stripes---he lumps Israel in there with the Norks and Pakistan. Bloody a$$hat.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-03-29 22:46|| 2006-03-29 22:46|| Front Page Top

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