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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Bush also said that Howard is a lot like him.
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Well George Jr wants to destroy the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The treaty bans nuclear material exports to nations that did not sign the treaty and who do not open their facilities to international inspections.
India has a massive shortage of nuclear material for nuclear power plants because it has diverted so much nuclear production into bomb making. So George Jr said America will provide India - who has not signed the treaty - with nuclear material for their nuclear reactors. Therefore India can now divert more material production into making bombs. This all but destroys another international treaty.
Australia produces 40% of the world’s uranium. Howard has just announced last week that Australia will join the US in destroying the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty - will sell nuclear material to India.
Yes they both do think very much alike. Short term political agendas without any consideration for the long term consequences.
Robert Drager(?) has just published a book on George Jr. In interviews, he notes that George Jr is concerned with his legacy. He wants his legacy to promote freedom. That would be freedom without responsibility. George Jr still is mystified that Iraq did not happen as three Iraqi dissidents said would happen. They told him with freedom, then a democratic and stable Iraq would spring forth. What George Jr did not understands - for that to happen, first the people must also have a reason to be responsible. Instead freedom resulted in full scale looting - as those who understand freedom really understood.
Would Howard have understood the need for responsibility? Just another compare and contrast between these two leaders. Well maybe reality is starting to set in. Drager does note how this president view things in black and white. How he refuses to acknowledge his mistakes believing that nothing would be gained by mulling over the past. Maybe his past is starting to eat at him much like Lyndon Johnson's mistakes so ate at Johnson's spirit.