Bush decides to help terrorists

[peptoabysmal]

Ah, the FMCT.

This isn't really a Bush "flip-flop", this was something that Clinton got the US involved in (IMO a good idea at least on paper) and the Bush administration said they would review the US' commitment to.

It is the State Department headed by Colin Powell which is making this decision. [Insert your own conspiracy theory here on how this works as far as the Bush administration giving orders to the State Department]

The State Department later released a statement saying that an internal review had concluded that an inspection regime "would have been so extensive that it could compromise key signatories' core national security interests and so costly that many countries will be hesitant to accept it."
U.S. Shifts Stance on Nuclear Treaty

My own guess is that yes, it probably is overly expensive and bureaucratic and that China will probably not buy into it. Without China, there is no way in heck the US should sign it.

 

[peptoabysmal]

One more thing...

Tricky;
I hope you are just kidding about the terrorist thing, there is nothing in the FMCT that either helps or hinders terrorists. It does not remove any current stockpiles, only stops production of any future fissile materials. There are plenty of non-fissle materials that can be used to spread horror and death throught the world.

If you're not kidding may I ask: Are you having a sympathy meltdown for John Kerry?

 

[Mike B.]

I'm generally of the opinion that the government WANTS an atom bomb detonated on U.S. soil.

Think of all the rights they could convince cowardly Americans they can do without after an atom bomb goes off?

And the POWER the government could grab!

They could get ANYTHING passed through congress!

They could literally be gunning down peace protestors in the streets to the applause of the vengeful war lovers among us.

They could grab the sort of 'emergency' powers even nazis would shake their head in wonder over.

Crush dissent. Kill dissenters. All in the interest of 'securirty'. They could probably work their right-wing Christian supremacy into it, too. Death camps will not be out of bounds if they can get just one or two medium yield ground-burst nukes with radioactive fallout to go off on the same day.

Never mind the government's negligence (or complicity) that allowed the bombs to be built, delivered, and detonated. Anyone who mentions that will be shot as a traitor. The government needs MORE POWER to deal with this never-ending threat!

After all, the propaganda machine will be in full tilt, and the REAL cause of the damage will be Revealed to us on the TV by our religious leaders: "Those evil non-Christians are at fault! God is punishing us for their sins!" What? Sounds far-fetched? Didn't you pay attention to what they said after 9/11?

Is there any weird conspiracy that you don't believe?

I am curious do you think the moon landing was faked?

Your post sounds almost exactly like the weird rantings of the extreme right wing during the Clinton Presidency.