Observers Fault U.S. for Pursuing Mini-Nukes (Reverse Peristalsis Alert)

Critics say American 'double standard' will undermine efforts to curb nuclear arms.

Vienna— Research on a new generation of precision atomic weapons by the Bush administration threatens to undermine international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear arms and to tarnish recent successes, according to diplomats and nonproliferation experts.

The criticism focuses on the administration's decision to lay the groundwork for developing low-yield weapons — known as mini-nukes — while pursuing President Bush's doctrine of preemptive strikes against rogue states.

The diplomats and independent experts said Washington's strategy weakens support for more stringent controls at a time when the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty faces serious challenges from North Korea and Iran and amid widespread fears of terrorists acquiring atomic weapons. The U.S. strategy, critics say, may cause other countries to pursue nuclear arms.

This is how I would have written this piece of journalistic garbage:

Anti-American Critics attempt to float the bogus notion that a 'double standard' will undermine efforts to curb nuclear arms.

Vienna— Research on a new generation of precision atomic weapons by the Bush administration and the Congress of the United States "threatens to undermine international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear arms and to tarnish recent successes", according to diplomats hostile to the United States and other so-called nonproliferation experts.

The criticism unjustly bashed the administration's excellent decision to lay the groundwork for developing low-yield weapons — known as mini-nukes — while pursuing President Bush's positive and successful doctrine of preemptive strikes against rogue states.

Ironically, these anti-U.S. diplomats and independent experts said Washington's strategy weakens support for more stringent controls at a time when the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty faces serious challenges from North Korea and Iran and amid widespread fears of terrorists acquiring atomic weapons. The U.S. strategy, critics say, may cause other countries to pursue nuclear arms.

But to buy into this notion requires an absolute denial of the inescapable truth that nations such as North Korea and Iran have been developing nuclear weapons without regard to any international non-proliferation treaties. Further, these nations which are officially hostile toward America, would be in a much greater position to launch a future nuclear attack the U.S. should the United States comply with such out-dated treaties.

"The U.S. follows a double standard that allows it to develop and threaten to use nuclear weapons while denying them to smaller countries," said Hussein Haniff, Malaysia's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. "We do not know whether the nuclear nonproliferation treaty can survive with these U.S. policies."

Remeber that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad just last June launched a vitriolic attack on the "European race", accusing them of "warmongering, indiscriminate attacks on Muslims, greed and sexual deviancy". Europeans, including "those who migrated and set up new nations in America, Australia and New Zealand", wanted "to control the world again", he said.

Later that month, Officials of the Prime Minister's party gave out translated copies of US industrialist Henry Ford's anti-Semitic book "The International Jew" to delegates at the annual United Malays National Organization (UMNO) conference in Kuala Lumpur.

Then in October, Mahathir told an Islamic summit that "Jews rule the world by proxy" and "get others to fight and die for them."

These are the exact people that we, the targets of worldwide islamic terrorism, should not be listening to when it comes to U.S. weapons programs.

Haniff heads a group of 13 countries that constitute a nonaligned bloc on the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors. The bloc is often at odds with the United States and last month opposed U.S. efforts to declare Iran in violation of the nonproliferation treaty.

Of course.

The Bush administration clearly argues that mini-nukes would provide flexibility to respond to changing threats and small-scale conflicts that do not require full-size nuclear armaments. Which, without question, it would.

(Snip) There's much more. Please, if you can stomach the slant and bias of this Times piece, cut, paste and edit your own exerpts.

BTW, The Times reporter completely missed (or rather ignored) CBS News's article: Report: Mini Nukes May Save Lives

Restore the Constitution!

Where were these liberals during the 1990's when we saw the most outrageous examples of proliferation in recent history? What was Clinton's response to the first-time detonations of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan...other that the fact they had no idea they had the technology. And why were we really surprised, when we knew their trading partners were N. Korea and China...two huge proliferators.

Did Clinton punish them? Heck no. North Korea got two light-water reactors and tons of oil in exchange for a promise that they wouldn't develop nuclear weapons. Instead of letting US inspectors in, as per the agreement, Clinton relied on the UN as they missed N. Korea's nuke program being developed right underneath their noses. And who can forget the waivers for Loral, as they were instrumental in the improvement of China's Long March rocket...along with super computers that could now simulate and assist in the development of nuclear weapons.

History will not only show almost a decade of proliferation under Clinton, it will also show it as the birth of the Asian Arms-Race as that administration did absolutely nothing to curtail its momentum....and in fact, assisted in it. And this should come as no surprise, as even those in Clinton's administration lamented the idea of the USA being the sole super-power. What better way to equalize and nullify the US's standing in a mono-polar world than to assist others who could keep the evil USA in check.

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