Bush Pushes Effort to Stop Spread of WMDs

[radfringe]

Bush Pushes Effort to Stop Spread of WMDs
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040211_178.html
President Bush Calls for Tougher Action Against Dangerous Regimes, Terror Groups Seeking WMDs
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Feb. 11 — Arguing that international efforts to combat nuclear proliferation have been neither broad nor effective enough, President Bush is calling for tougher global action against dangerous regimes and terrorist networks that seek those and other deadly weapons.

Bush was unveiling his new push for greater international resolve against the spread of weapons of mass destruction in a speech Wednesday at the National Defense University, a senior administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity said Tuesday.

In a proposal likely to anger nations such as North Korea and Iran, Bush was to call for preventing countries from acquiring nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technology under the guise of building civilian power facilities, the official said.

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The president also was calling for more international contributions to a U.S. aid program to help Russia and other former Soviet-bloc nations to secure vulnerable nuclear arsenals and seek an expansion of the program, though without adding U.S. funding, the official said. He also was to urge more countries to join his Proliferation Security Initiative, which aims to interdict shipments of weapons of mass destruction.

Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., said the president's intentions seemed long on rhetoric and short on action. She criticized him for not stepping up funding for the program to secure Russia's weapons and for withdrawing the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

"He has consistently underfunded and even cut the nonproliferation programs that would make the United States safer," Tauscher said.



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with two wars already going on --- looks like the "war pResident" wants to start more....

[JasonDeter]

1. I'm so afraid this is 'closing the barn door AFTER the horse is out'

bush* has put a big X on America because of his moronic unilateral warmongering ways.

[MichaelHarris]

2. Bush on Meet the Press

"See, free societies are societies that don't develop weapons of mass terror and don't blackmail the world."
G.Dub, Meet the Press

Just what do we have stored at the Umatilla Depot? http://www.cpeo.org/lists/military/1996/msg00296.html

Just what did we drop on Japan? http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/

Which President is threatening NATO?

Bush Suspends Aid to 35 Countries for Refusing Immunity to Americans in International Criminal Court
Sources: BBC Worldwide Monitoring, "Former Belgian NATO Chief Warns U.S. NATO Threat Serious," No Author, June 18, 2003; Agence France Presse, "Belgium Under Pressure Over War Crimes Law," No Author, June 13, 2003; Washington Post, "Rumsfeld Says Belgian Law Could Imperil Funds for NATO," Vernon Loeb, June 13, 2003.

Which President is holding prisoners w/o respect for their civil rights?

Bush Administration Holds Minors in Guantanamo Detention Camp
Source: The Associated Press, "Youths Being Interrogated at Guantanamo, U.S. Military Says," Michelle Faul, April 23, 2003

Which President is denying contracts in Iraq to countries that did not support him?

(couldn't find a link, sorry)

I wonder who Dub was talking about?

[truthisfreedom]

3. "... and don't blackmail the world," huh?

"At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs,'" Brisard said in an interview in Paris.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I've an idea how Bush can help

He could get some of the CIA's finest, and set them up in a consulting company as a front, then they could investigate the spread of WMD, and no-one would know about it, so they'd be safe, and very effective. Admittedly, it'd take years to establish, but once done, only an idiot or a traitorous scumbag would dare blow their cover.