Bush Promises to Give Enriched Uranium To Saudi Arabia

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As US Threatens Iran Over Enriching Uranium, Bush Promises to Give
Enriched Uranium to Saudi Arabia

AMY GOODMAN: We turn from cluster bombs to what could be a major development in nuclear proliferation worldwide: the Bush administration pledging to support Saudi Arabia’s nuclear power program, including supplying enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. The agreement came out of President Bush’s visit to the Saudi kingdom last week, during which Bush also pledged new US assistance in guarding Saudi oil reserves.


In a statement, the White House said the deal "will pave the way for Saudi Arabia’s access to safe, reliable fuel sources for energy reactors and demonstrate Saudi leadership as a positive non-proliferation model for the region.” But questions are being raised about the agreement at a time when the Bush administration continues to threaten military action over Iran’s nuclear program.


Harvey Wasserman joins us now, one of the founders of the grassroots movement against nuclear power, senior editor of the Ohio-based freepress.org and editor of nukefree.org, joining us on the phone from Columbus, Ohio.


Harvey Wasserman, what’s going on here?


HARVEY WASSERMAN: You know, I’d like to know the insane asylum in which this policy was concocted. The idea of giving enriched uranium to the Saudis while threatening war with the Iranians for enriching uranium is astonishing. The idea that the Saudis are going to somehow lower the price of oil on the basis of possibly getting nuclear reactors in the future is just almost staggering to think about. It’s something, I guess, we’ve come to expect with the Bush administration.


But the nuclear power industry is trying desperately to spread itself all over the world, and we have proliferation problems. As you may recall, the Clinton administration cut a deal with the North Koreans to build a reactor there, and of course now suddenly, when Bush comes in, they’re a nuclear threat. We have to put this in perspective. We have to remember that when the Shah was in power in Iran so many years ago, he was in the process of buying thirty-six reactors, and had those reactors been completed before he fell to the Ayatollah, Iran would now have thirty-six reactors. So what the Bush administration is telling us is that this current Saudi government is always going to be in power and it’s perfectly fine for them to have nuclear reactors. We know that India and Pakistan built—both built nuclear weapons from their commercial atomic power programs, as perhaps did South Africa. And it’s just almost staggering to think about this prospect.

I get it now, the US gives/allows it's friends in this Middle Eastern region the ability to attain WMD like Israel. However, a country such as Iran can't even speak building reactors for nuclear energy. It's simple paint them as a terriost state and threaten them with emminent attack to keep the country where we want them while Israel continues to a mass nuclear weapons.

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RolandTD20Kdrummer

It's a cartel of criminals both arms elbows deep into the cookie jar laughing all the way to the bank.

Commy

yeah the Saudis would do well with wmd's. sure.

keeponrockin

Giving uranimum to the country where the majority of the hijackers came from sounds like an EXCELLENT idea.

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keeponrockin wrote:

Giving uranimum to the country where the majority of the hijackers came from sounds like an EXCELLENT idea.

Human Beings....Behaving Humanly...*BRILLIANT*

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wwfairfield

signatures to the npt have the right to nuclear power
that is the problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty


iran has the right to enrich
the saudis have the right to enrich


but then they can also weaponize
which ain't coo;l

if you provide a nation with the uranium they can't get the super enriched shit
and they won't have depleted uranium which is a completely separate story ... see depleted uranium shells


but there is national pride involved .. "what are we children?" "we have the right.."

DixieN

George is the definition of an appeaser.

Commy

DixieN wrote:

George is the definition of an appeaser.

yeah like with Saddam.

Heineken Helen

I would reply... but I'd only be labelled anti-american

This is simply beyond belief :eek: we're all doomed.

mammasan

Just when I thought Bush & Co couldn't possibly sink any lower. Saudi Arabia is the center of fundamentalist and militant Islamism. The Saudi government funds all the religious Mahadrasas that preach this form of Islam. Over 40% of the foreign jihadist in Iraq are of Saudi decent. Saudi Arabia has been funneling money to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and we want to give these people enriched uranium. What's even worse is that the numb-nuts in Congress and the Senate will just go along with it because they are feeding off the Saudi teet as well.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

keeponrockin wrote:

Giving uranimum to the country where the majority of the hijackers came from sounds like an EXCELLENT idea.

Really makes you wonder doesn't it.

Anyone with more than two cells to rub together upstairs that is.

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Heineken Helen wrote:

I would reply... but I'd only be labelled anti-american

This is simply beyond belief :eek: we're all doomed.

I've been labeled anti-American ever since I refused to place a flag in/on my car after 9/11. Now those same people probably don't have a flag anywhere near their car, I on the other now have a flag proudly in my car cause back in 01' I wasn't about to follow the crowd.

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DixieN

Commy wrote:

yeah like with Saddam.

It's easy to kick a guy with only one borrowed leg to stand on. George is good at kicking people who can't kick back. He is an appeaser. First people that can kick back, send 'em uranium. Appease, appease, appease.

Cosmo

Please appease me... oh yeah, like I appease you.

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DixieN wrote:

It's easy to kick a guy with only one borrowed leg to stand on. George is good at kicking people who can't kick back. He is an appeaser. First people that can kick back, send 'em uranium. Appease, appease, appease.

You're correct about George being an appeaser in that he's allowing the Saudi's to have our enriched uranium in return for favorable oil prices and favors. Another instance where his oil friends (Charlyle Group) can profit.

Ten years from now we have no idea who will be the leaders of this country will be and if unfavorable we will have to consider yet another war. His sheer brilliance amazes me.

The Bush administration’s claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq formed the key justification for the war to Congress, the American people and the international community. As the former chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, Hans Blix was at the center of the storm. From March 2000 to June 2003, Blix oversaw the UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission’s 700 inspections at 500 sites in the run-up to the invasion. Blix is currently the chair of the Swedish government’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission. His latest book, just published, is Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters. Blix joins us for the hour from Stockholm, Sweden.

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