--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > > Rummy's company? He owns it? You are assuming because he sits on > > the board he has full say in what the company does. The article you > > quote doesn't even go that far. And even if it were *his* company > > it is the government that decides what countries they may do > > business with when it comes to nuclear technology. > > Sitting on the board of directors he had to be aware of the sale. > And companies *do* have ways of getting around government > restrictions such has having their offices offshore.
HEY. Listen up, both of you. The lightwater reactors were not a problem, *even if they had been provided according to the agreement* (they weren't, because Congress wouldn't fund them). First, it's very, very difficult to get weapons- grade material from the nuclear fuel for a lightwater reactor. Second, it was part of the agreement that North Korea would send the spent fuel to a third country for recycling--which is what Bush has proposed *Iran* do with *its* spent nuclear fuel. So this is all a red herring. It doesn't *matter* whether Rummy had anything to do with it, the Guardian article notwithstanding. The fact remains that Clinton did a *much* better job of dealing with North Korea than Bush has done. For a detailed account, see this Slate article by Fred Kaplan: http://www.slate.com/id/2151354/ There are links in that article to other sources of information on the crisis. And there's a link to an even more detailed earlier account by Kaplan in Washington Monthly: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.kaplan.html Both of you need to bone up on the facts before you can have any kind of a meaningful discussion. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
