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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2410)2/13/2004 6:51:28 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
this is news to me

It's also not true. Sanctions were imposed in 1998 against India and Pakistan, not specifically against the export of nuclear technology (which was already prohibited under export regulations from being exported to India and Pakistan and had been since the 1970's) but against certain economic activities. The 1998 sanctions were mandatory and at the time Clinton lobbied to change the law to give the President more flexibility because he did not want to impose them. The sanctions took away ExIm financing and similar financing and aid arrangements, and also prohibited nonnuclear exports (remember, nuclear exports were already prohibited) to companies who had participated in developing Pakistan's (and India's) nuclear program. The effect was that you couldn't send a paper clip to a company if it had previously worked on the nuke program, even if that company also worked on nonnuclear projects.

This was viewed by many as ineffective and unworkable. Lots of companies in India and Pakistan that were engaged in basic fabrication activities for industry were prohibited from dealing with U.S. companies about things that had no possible nuclear application. Bush changed this (for both India and Pakistan) by allowing nonnuclear exports to resume but leaving the prohibition on nuclear exports in place. That prohibition has existed since at least the 1970's under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

Classic example of "news" being misinformation.
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