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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mistermj who wrote (47309)	9/6/2004 1:04:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Have you ever read 1984? Bush is Orwell's nightmare come to life. "War is Peace", etc. As a sheeple, you've bought in..

To: mistermj who wrote (47309)	9/6/2004 1:17:53 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

OK this is not spin. It is a news report from a respected International newspaper. How on earth can Bush claim success against Gadaffi when his own ally, South Korea in secretly building nuclear weapons? How can Bush claim success in his relationship with Israel when that ally has secret spies in Pentagon? I have marked a sentence in red because of its significance to me. And that is where Bush has failed. They are all very afraid of "pre-emptive strikes" a favorite of Bush. Bush must go since with it will go the politics of fear of "pre-emptive strikes" and the world will be a safer place. The nuclear club Published: September 6 2004 03:00 Last updated: September 6 2004 03:00 <font size=3> The revelation that South Korean scientists had secretly enriched uranium to a level close to that required for nuclear weapons shows that the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Bush administration have been on the right track: the struggle against nuclear proliferation does indeed require tighter safeguards against uranium enrichment and the reprocessing of nuclear fuel into plutonium, both permitted by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Unfortunately for the US, the country exposed last week was one of its allies, not a member of Mr Bush's "axis of evil". Faced with IAEA investigations under a new and stricter NPT protocol, the government in Seoul admitted that its scientists had used lasers four years ago to produce 0.2g of highly enriched uranium. The quantity said to have been produced (and later destroyed) in South Korea sounds small, but even if the experiments were isolated they presumably demonstrated that it would be possible to make more when needed. The news revived fears of an arms race in east Asia, given the animosities between the region's states, their big civilian nuclear power programmes and their technical skills. China has nuclear weapons, and North Korea is believed to have made some too, leaving Japan, South Korea and Taiwan dependent on the US for security. Proliferation has not been confined to east Asia. South Africa, Libya and Iraq have abandoned military nuclear programmes or had them dismantled, but Israel, India and Pakistan have all successfully evaded or avoided international controls in the past to produce nuclear weapons. Iran, according to the IAEA, is still producing uranium hexafluoride, which is used to create enriched uranium. <font color=red>A common feeling linking recent or would-be entrants to the nuclear club is insecurity. <font color=black>Another common factor - and long may it remain so - is that they are all states. Even Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani arch-proliferator and self-styled "father of the Islamic bomb", could not have succeeded without the manpower and financial and technical support of his country. This is significant because Islamist terrorists are eager to acquire a nuclear weapon and would probably have no hesitation in using it to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. As far as is known, they have not succeeded in making such a weapon themselves. Notwithstanding South Korea's implausible claim that its nuclear scientists had worked without the government's knowledge, the enrichment of uranium on an industrial scale appears to require the support of a well-organised state. It would be easier for terrorists to buy or steal a ready-made weapon, or find an outside provider of plutonium or enriched uranium. That is why it is essential for the IAEA to control the terrorists' likeliest source of supply: the world's nation states. news.ft.com