Is This Really Where we Want to Sell Our Uranium?

To illustrate the lunacy of selling our uranium to really anybody who will buy it consider this:

Pakistan warned Thursday that a civilian nuclear accord between India and the United States threatens regional stability, saying it would allow its arch rival to produce more atomic bombs. The caution came at a meeting of Pakistan's National Command Authority (NCA) chaired by President Pervez Musharraf, a statement said. The body oversees the country's nuclear strategy. The long-delayed deal announced in July in Washington allows US exports of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India for the first time in 30 years.

So Pakistan considers that India is a nuclear rival - no surprises there.  However we will be contributing to this instability.  We are going to be selling uranium to India.

CANBERRA, Australia -

Australia might lift its ban on selling uranium to India if New Delhi forms the nuclear partnership it is negotiating with the United States, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Thursday.

Australia, which holds 40 percent of the world's known uranium reserves, currently won't sell uranium to India because New Delhi is developing nuclear weapons and refuses to join an international nonproliferation treaty.

But Downer said India's dramatic economic expansion and the threat of global warming has forced the government to reconsider that ban.

Australia will take its cue from the civilian nuclear partnership deal that Washington and New Delhi have been negotiating for the past two years, Downer said.

So despite the inconvenient fact that India has not signed the NPT we will still sell uranium to them in direct contravention of the policies of selling uranium.  However we will not sell our uranium to Pakistan, our brothers in arms in the GWOT.

THERE'S no prospect in the near future of Australia exporting uranium to Pakistan, says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

The Federal Government yesterday confirmed it was considering selling uranium to Pakistan nuclear rival India.

That prompted Pakistan's Minister For Religious Affairs Ejaz ul-Haq to call on Australia to also consider selling uranium to Islamabad.

Neither Pakistan nor India have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Mr Downer today said Pakistan had shown no interest in negotiating with the International Atomic Energy Agency a system of safeguards and inspections for its two non-military nuclear power stations.

Oh I see it is OK to sell it to a nation that will not sign the NPT however as long as it's reactors are inspected it is OK.  Why does India not sign the NPT if it's reactors are kosher?

The double standards and hypocrisy of this government is beyond belief.  Nuclear is safe and clean and uranium sales are OK and we will only sell to people that sign the NPT.  No wait - nuclear is safe and clean and we now co-incidently believe in global warming, so we will sell uranium to anybody to help the Earth.  No wait again we don't want to help the Earth so much as to sell uranium to a Muslim country because nuclear is so safe and clean that we would not want it to get it into the hands of a possible enemy because it is so safe.  C o n t r a d i c t i o n   h e r e - self destructing ........

Anyone else see the problem here?

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