Markey accuses White House of duplicity(India Selling Missile Parts Iran)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/07/29/markey_accuses_white_house_of_duplicity/

Massachusetts congressman Edward Markey yesterday accused the Bush administration of delaying an announcement that the United States plans to impose sanctions on two Indian companies for assisting in Iran's missile program.

Markey , a Malden Democrat, said the administration is withholding the announcement for fear that it would jeopardize chances of getting congressional approval for a controversial proposal to sell nuclear technology to India.

The measure, which would make India the only country in the world to receive sensitive nuclear technology from the United States without signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives late Wednesday. It now goes to the Senate.

The State Department is not expected to release the report on which Indian firms have been sanctioned until next week. But Reuters quoted two US officials yesterday saying that two Indian firms were being sanctioned for selling missiles-related technology to Iran.

``The Bush administration has once again delayed, obfuscated, and misled this Congress by withholding information about these violations by Indian entities before we voted to grant historic nuclear cooperation with the Indian government," Markey, one of the most vocal critics of the measure, said in a statement yesterday.

[rodeodance]

1. drts.

[w4rma]

2. They haven't even signed on to the non-proliferation treaty. Psycho. (nt)

[Cobalt Violet]

3. K & R.

:kick:

[FUGW]

4. Some how this is Clinton's fault.

[salin]

5. So India's leaders clearly state, and have in the past, that they will

not be 'incentivized' into cutting off ties with Iran.

But Bushco pushes congress to pass a law to allow US to sell Nuke Tech to India, making it the only country would would allow to get such tech assitance, that has not signed the nuke nonproliferation treaty. Bushco gives language to congress - to tie the initiative to coercing India into cutting off economic ties/efforts with Iran - KNOWING THAT INDIA ISN'T GOING TO DO THIS.

So wtf is going on?

My cynical self says the real story is this: Some big US based corp with cronie ties to Bushco - wants a HUGE lucrative contract with India. Better yet, as has been done elsewhere, bet if this passes, soon it will be announced that as part of our foreign aid to India, we are giving a grant (that is NOT A LOAN - that is STRAIGHT OUT OF WE, The tax Payers Pockets') to India in order for them to purchase x, y or z technology from ________ (said corporate cronie pal of bushco.)

So what company benefits?

Seriously, there is little foreign policy reasons that is apparent in this policy. What national goals are met - esp given that India has publicly declared, many times, that the US could not bully it into lessening its ties to Iran? Hard to see that ANY benefit is to be made. Could maybe see it if this was used as a carrot to get India to sign the Nuke nonproliferation treaty. But that's not there.

Only thing that jumps out at me - is that this is was pursued by some US based rich businessmen wanting to get their hands on a LARGE chunk of taxpayers money- national security risks to the US be-damned.

[RonHack]

9. This is what blows my mind....

<snip>

"On Wednesday, Markey tried to amend the nuclear deal to require Bush to certify that India has cooperated with efforts to curb Iran's program before going forward with sharing nuclear knowledge. The amendment was defeated, 192-to-235."

So, the only way to be sure that what Bush is claiming, does happen..... and it gets shot down.

<me smells a rat, a BushRat>

So much for "Trust, but Verify".

[salin]

10. BINGO

There is a growing list of actions of bushco that demonstrate that when cronies benefit, the security of our nation comes second... even though the language used to sell whatever action is fully in the "we are strong on national security" rhetoric.

[arcane1]

15. is it fascism yet?????????????

:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

[MissWaverly]

12. remember when Iran wanted to negotiate with us

we sent our ambassador Halliburton to meet with them

[salin]

13. speaking of Halliburton... whatever happened to the story

that Halliburton was in big trouble for doing business with Iran (and going around US Sanctions - just like they did in Iraq). Funny how that just dropped off the radar screen.

[MissWaverly]

14. yes, that's very interesting another thing down the memory hole

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. India gets US nuke parts and jobs, we get India's tasty mangos

US and India seal nuclear accord (BBC News)

Sounds fair to me. People can just be SO picky sometimes.

Now, where's all them yummy mangos?

[Doctor_J]

7. This White House? Duplicitous?

Can't be - they're all good Christian men and women.

[Up2Late]

8. Why not?

We aren't stopping Pakistan from selling their Nu-killer technology to N. Korea, Libya and a few others, why stop India?

[lovuian]

11. India is Not our friend no matter what Bush touts and this

shows it...India is for India