U.S. Brochure Drops Arms-Control Deals

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Brochure Drops Arms-Control Deals

By CHARLES J. HANLEY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 25, 2005; 4:03 AM

UNITED NATIONS -- With a few keystrokes, an official U.S. brochure eliminated some historic arms-control deals, angered the champions of disarmament, and showed again that in the paper deluge of a global conference, what's left out can be as telling as what's put in.

In this case, the publication's "rewriting of history," as one critic put it, also illustrates in black and white a dispute that has helped bog down the 188-nation conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

The monthlong conference entered its final three days on Wednesday with uncertain prospects for producing any major agreements to tighten controls on the spread of atomic arms, or to speed nuclear disarmament.

The brochure, slickly produced by the State Department and distributed to hundreds of delegates, lists milestones in arms control since the 1980s, while touting reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But the timeline omits a pivotal agreement, the 1996 treaty to ban nuclear tests, a pact negotiated by the Clinton administration and ratified by 121 nations but now rejected under President Bush.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052500266.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. The word of the US is no longer good under bush. The signed agreements

of the US are no longer good under bush.

The US Constitution's "law of the land" is no longer valid under bush.

Rogue. State.

Under bush.

[rodeodance]

2. talk about destroying our image!!

[rodeodance]

3. it is part of the "Empire" mentality.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Yep. Now 3 words sum up the USA;

Criminal. Rogue. State.