And Indian irradiated mangoes again
Just got this over the wire:
SECRETARY JOHANNS TO PARTICIPATE IN RECEIVING SHIPMENT OF INDIAN MANGOS
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2007 - Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns will participate with U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen in receiving the first shipment of Indian mangos.
WHO: Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab
Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen
WHAT: Photo opportunity receiving the shipment of Indian mangos
WHEN: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
2:45 p.m. EDT
TK: This Washington photo shoot indicates that this indeed is a big deal, particularly for Indian mango exporters.
Labels: FDA, Mike Johanns
posted by Tom Karst @ 4:42 PM
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Here's another point of view I read on the Indian mango issue.
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Bush Just Blinked
He can't wait to eat India's mangos.
I hope he chokes on them.
Trading nukes for mangos. What's next?
... In addition to all the predictable reactions (pro and con) to the landmark nuclear agreement reached in India yesterday, a powerful and unexpected new concern has emerged based on a last-minute concession by President Bush. It appears that, to close the deal during his visit, Bush directed his negotiators to give in to India's demands that it be allowed to produce unlimited quantities of fissile material and amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants. ... ... Dan Froomkin
The selling of our national security continues.
Don't look now, but President Bush just stepped into another one.
"You know the reality is that they've lost their touch. ... Every week is something that reinforces the message that these guys don't know what they're doing and they're incompetent. We're almost going to get to the point where we're going to look fondly back on Jimmy Carter's administration, and I say that with great sadness as a Republican. But it's week after week after week that they just can't seem to find their way... normally a foreign trip gives you something... But if we're walking back with mangos and they're getting nuclear rods, that's not a very good swap."
- Ed Rollins on "Lou Dobbs"
The Dubai ports deal has drained whatever capital Bush thought he had, with the latest giveaway to India so unspeakably incomprehensible, as to defy sanity.
India uses coal, so their nuclear energy isn't for electricity. But that's just the tip of this nuclear nightmare.
... The Nonproliferation Treaty obliges the existing nuclear-armed powers—including the United States—to supply such resources to the treaty's signatories, under specific terms of inspection, as a reward for forgoing nuclear weaponry. However, India already has an arsenal of A-bombs, and it never signed the NPT.
Bush and Singh dealt with this dilemma last summer by simply ignoring it. India, their joint statement declared, would be treated "as a responsible state with advanced nuclear technology" and should therefore be allowed to "acquire the same benefits and advantages as other such states."
In other words, India would receive the same rewards as countries that had signed the NPT—without actually having to sign it and thus to put up with its restraints. (America's reward would be that India buys the nuclear materials, as well as a lot of other products, from U.S. companies.) The deal violates the NPT—and a treaty governing the Nuclear Suppliers' Group, an organization of 44 nations that sets rules on importing and exporting nuclear materials. ...
As Kaplan points out, Bush doesn't have authority to exempt India from any of the NPT clauses. However, he's going to do it anyway, even though what he's doing breaks international and U.S. laws. The Congress needs to stop him.
One has to wonder who will be next to ask for special treatment? It should send a chill down your spine to consider the possibilities. Iran comes to mind for me.
Ed Rollins went on to laugh that the only thing running is Interior, but he wasn't even sure about that one.
The ever inane Joe Klein took a swipe at being urbane and missed.
"... I always thought the Democrats were mortally incompetent. These guys are the worst I've ever seen from the Democrats."
- Joe Klein on "Lou Dobbs"
This week, President Bush not only showed he was willing to sell out our homeland through the Dubai deal, but that he's also willing to sell our national security by topping that one by offering lethal weapons for fruit.
Mangos for nuclear rods?
Bush not only blinked, he fell fast asleep on the job.
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