Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Republicans willing to allow smuggled nukes in US
What else can you say about this passage from the NYT report on the Anti-Terrorism bill?
The compromises were necessary because of a veto threat from President Bush and opposition by Republican members of Congress. The bill, expected to come up for final votes next week, had cleared the House in January and the Senate in March but had been stalled until recently. Republicans claimed that some of the initiatives being pushed by Democrats, such as a requirement that all ship containers headed to the United States from overseas be checked for nuclear threats, were impractical and would disrupt global trade.Nukes disrupt global trade, too, but most Republicans really don't care about that. Besides, if an attack occurs, they will hold it up as a vindication of all their own failures, and Fox viewers everywhere will believe them.
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