Nunn Urges Congress to Set Conditions on U.S.-India Nuclear Pact

[Flabbergasted]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/20/AR2006032001681.html



By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 21, 2006; Page A09

In a setback for the administration's efforts to win approval of a landmark nuclear pact with India, former senator Sam Nunn said yesterday that he has serious concerns the deal would harm the "United States' vital interest" in preventing nuclear proliferation and urged Congress to set conditions for its support.

"Congress has a duty to look at the broader framework," Nunn, a moderate and highly respected Georgia Democrat who still has broad influence in both parties on proliferation and military matters, said in an interview. "If I were still in Congress, I would be skeptical and looking at conditions that could be attached."

[demosincebirth]

1. Screw Nunn. He voted against the "Worker Replacement bill"

that was supported by all of organized labor in 1992. We never forget.

[saltpoint]

2. A friend of mine caddied for Sam Nunn some years back.

He said what I feel now. Nunn is way too conservative on domestic issues. Way, way too conservative.

But he's no dumb-bell on this issue and his cooler voice might be instructive if only a certain monkey-brained little fool in the White House would listen.

If not Nunn's voice, at least Hagel's, or Clark's, etc.