Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ?

Actually this whole nucular deal is a mystery to me -why the US is eager to sell & why india is eager to buy. India`s record on hazardous waste is horrendous and nuclear waste will only add to the pollution. Sure, ways of power generation have to be found, but india should be on the leading edge of sustainable power development such as wind, tidal, solar and micro-hydel but instead we are trying to run before we can learn to walk.
On the part of the US, it`s little skin off Bush`s nose. Between now and when the deal is ratified (if it is ratified), the war industry will make a killing selling hi-tech weaponry to india and down the line, it will use india as the bogeyman to sell more of the same to pakistan.
So long as there is a huge technological gap and a desire to own the latest, india will be in the debt of the war industry of the west.
If instead the PM could have wrangled a half a million H1B visas in exchange for some IAEA inspection, it would have made a lot of fiscal and common sense.

the nuke deal was first proposed by india as a way to forward the strategic relationship ahead in concrete terms. there was a general agreement that the indo-us strategic relationship needs to go forward..NATO style alliance was out of the Q, and india was very allergic to anything which openly was posed as anti-china..blackwill comment: the fastest way to empty a drawing room in dilli is to say ``bulwark against china``. this deal was proposed and was accepted as a novel way to move forward strategic alliance without an overt relationship (i.e. like ``non-nato ally`` etc).

dhanda-pani, people-poeple etc is on its own track anyways..what was missing was a strategic relationship.

#1 by masadi on March 3, 2006 10:06am PT


``Big business`` doesn`t have to pressure Bush on India, the Indians are falling all over themselves to the point of selling their mothers to get big business in.


Comrade masadi....Isn`t that just sour grapes now that India signed a nuclear deal which isn`t on the table for Pakiland..It`s not like Pakiland doesn`t want the deal either..

Pakistan not against deal, wants same

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday it was not against a civilian nuclear deal between the United States and India and demanded the same facility for Pakistan.

People who let foreign powers bomb and kill their citizens on their soil without so much as demanding an apology shouldn`t really be talking about selling their mothers...Isn`t selling your mother better than giving her away for free?


The US has always treated Pakistan as a whore,


A whore gets to pick her clients..and she sets her own rates..A condom, on the other hand..

``Big business`` doesn`t have to pressure Bush on India, the Indians are falling all over themselves to the point of selling their mothers to get big business in. The ``big business`` in the US practically ``owns`` congress so there is no trouble there. Bush is courting India as a future bulwark against China. Pakistan due to its size cannot fulfill a similar role as India can against China ( even though the Chinese are going to kick the Indian`s a$$es at will regardless of any US deal), and thus Pakistan doesn`t enjoy equal status with the US regardless of how frequently Musharraf kisses GWB`s behind. The US has always treated Pakistan as a whore, for its own purpose, used and discarded upon need, always giving greater importance to India for its own selfish reasons, in my opinion.