France and Germany!
Nick Sarkozy told the UN general assembly that allowing Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons was an unacceptable risk to the stability of the region. Then Angie Merkel jumps up and says sanctions should be tougher because Ahmadinejad's attitude is, well, less than diplomatic.
Which didn't matter to Ahmadinejad a bit, who took the podium and said the only body they'd answer to is the IAEA. So the enrichment of uranium for weapons purposes is a forgone conclusion? Or the UN is supposed to trust him?
Not to bring up more badness when it comes to our current administration and foreign policy, but we're about to sign on a nuclear material deal with India that breaks every UN non-proliferation law in the books. India did not sign the non-proliferation treaty nor do they allow inspection of their sites. And no one would have been the wiser for this except for Israel, who's hoping to get a non-proliferation waiver and import nuclear material as well, citing this potential agreement as grounds for their own waiver.
#1) Why are we giving India nuclear material, for power or otherwise?
#2) Why AREN'T we doing this for Israel? Public or otherwise?
#3) Can we let France and Germany TCOB in Iran? Or at least play point?
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France and Germany, along with Canada & Austraila are moving in a center right direction electorally and for two reasons. Iran and terrorism in general is something they know full well they can be hit by, and (in France's and Germany's case) their economies are in desperate need of reform - away from the high tax back breaking socilaism track they were on.
On India - Musharaff might go the way of the dodo pretty soon. If he does and muslim extremists take over - or worse, are voted in - then we want a strong, even nuclear India to confront a nuclear Pakistan governed by Islamic extremists.
On Israel, they have nukes. Undoubtedly provided by us in large part. It's a taboo subject in Israeli politics, especially in public, but the defense mimister, before Netenyahu (sp?), accidentaly admitted to it to a media outlet, the Jeruselum post if i'm not mistaken. They got em', you can be sure of that. I'll try to get a link up that gives the story iI'm referring to.
FR
Jambo, I pulled this off the web ...
Main article: Nuclear weapons and Israel
"The Israeli government refuses to officially confirm or deny whether it has a nuclear weapon program. It has an unofficial but rigidly enforced policy of deliberate ambiguity, saying only that it would not be the first to "introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East".[3] In the late 1960s, Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin informed the United States State Department, that its understanding of "introducing" such weapons meant that they would be tested and publicly declared, while merely possessing the weapons did not constitute "introducing" them.[4] Israel is widely believed to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the other three being India, Pakistan and North Korea.[5] The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei regards Israel as a state possessing nuclear weapons.[6] In a December 2006 interview, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Iran aspires "to have a nuclear weapon as America, France, Israel and Russia."[7] Olmert's office later said that the quote was taken out of context; in other parts of the interview, Olmert refused to confirm or deny Israel's nuclear weapon status.[8]"
Just google "Israel Nuclear Weapons" and scores of sites come up. I think it's safe to assume that since they get F16's and the like from us that we played some part in their nuclear capability development. For obvious reasons this is not a publicized arrangment.
FR
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