Rice urges Congress to quickly approve pact with nuclear renegade India

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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday urged US lawmakers to act this month on an initiative to share civilian nuclear technology with India. snip

Separately, Rice’s speech Monday followed India’s announcement of its test-firing of a new missile designed to carry nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East. The Indian defense minister said the test was unsuccessful; the missile plunged into the Bay of Bengal short of its target.

Rice did not mention the launch in her comments. snip

India developed its nuclear weapons program outside of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is why Congress must approve an exemption to US laws that restrict nuclear trade with countries that have not submitted to full nuclear inspections.

Critics say the plan would shred the treaty. The extra nuclear fuel that the deal would provide, they say, could free up India’s domestic uranium for use in its weapons program.

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1. I can understand us wanting to do this.

We need another forward nuclear launch site near Russia and China to more quickly respond when they start lobing nukes at us.

Which is in the not to distant future.

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2. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has failed miserably at her job

...and is only moving the U.S. and the world closer to nuclear war