Undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Wednesday the House overwhelmingly supported Bush's nuclear deal with India, rewarding it after it developed and tested nuclear weapons (House Resolution 5682, online at /thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.05682: ).  The agreement has provisions against proliferation, but discarding the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and increasing India's nuclear capacity encourage proliferation.  I think India, Pakistan, and Isreal have not signed the NPT.  This again shows how hypocritical it is for the US to threaten north Korea over the development of nuclear weapons.  Brad Miller, Bob Etheridge, and Price co-sponsored this bill and approved it, while Walter Jones and Charles Taylor, Republicans, were the only NC Representatives to oppose it.  

 

Price, Etheridge, Watt, Butterfield, Jones, Coble, and McIntyre voted for a bill that I can't find online that would have blocked the above bill until India voices support for US anti-Iran actions in the UN.  This is more hypocrisy and hard politics.  Iran is probably also a potential enemy of India, so it would be threatened by India's nuclear weapons.    

 

In the Senate, our illustrious senators voted against sex education to reduce teen pregnancies, possibly because it would have included education about contraceptives and birth control pills.