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The two faces of Rumsfeld [Re: Having it both ways W.R.T. DPRK]
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Sun, 11 May 2003 09:35:05 GMT
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> In other words, US taxpayers were going to pay for (much of the cost of) 2
> new nuclear plants to be built. By making them light water reactors, it was
> felt that they would not be as vulnerable to fuel diversion as the existing
> graphite reactors in the DPRK were.
Harder; but not impossible. Anyhow is the current bogeyman not a "dirty bomb"?
> Would they rather that some French company (the country that let its
> companies build divertable plants in Iraq) or some Russian company (the
> country that let its companies sell GPS jammers to Iraq) got the job? WHO
> did they want to have get the work? (1)
...or the US, the country that sells "thumb cuffs" to Saudi Arabia? Really;
what relevance are GPS jammers to this? [other than simple mud slinging?]
You may be interested in the USA's nuclear proliferation record:
U.S. Violating Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0311-NPT.html
US increases nuclear ties with Israel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/652858.stm
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> And for someone to post here essentially swallowing these implications and
> protesting mightily... why that strikes me as a lack of critical thinking on
> their part. Or perhaps rabid uncritical acceptance of anything that makes
> the US look bad, who can say?
My Target was Mr Rumsfeld. I can't believe you are trying to defend Rumsfeld on
this; his hypocrisy is astounding:
He gives SH anthrax, and then attacks him for [allegedly] still having it.
He gives NK nuclear technology, and *then* worries about the risk they present.
See:
The two faces of Rumsfeld
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,952196,00.html
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2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors
to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a
target for regime change
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which
three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a
country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been
targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build
nuclear weapons.
[later]
Critics of the administration's bellicose language on North Korea say that the
problem was not that Mr Rumsfeld supported the Clinton-inspired diplomacy and
the ABB deal but that he did not "speak up against it". "One could draw the
conclusion that economic and personal interests took precedent over
non-proliferation," said Steve LaMontagne, an analyst with the Centre for Arms
Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington.
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What next?
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> Draw your own conclusions, gentle reader. I did.
Bravo! You have formed your own opinion, rather than plagiarising that of
another!
> I think it makes that
> particular someone look mighty foolish, (as is often the case, in my view)
> but YMMV. You may well think they're doing us all a great service posting
> this stuff.
I may be foolish at times, but I do use my own words to do so. Can you say the
same?
[Readers: Don't expect an answer]
[Larry: Stick to the issues & lay off me]
Scott A
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> 1 - If there's any annoyance here for anyone, in my view anyway, it's that a
> non US company got the work after US taxpayers get most of the bill. Better
> that a US company would have gotten it so it would be easier for the US to
> keep an eye on things...
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> ++Lar
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