There seems to be some Democratic howling over the signing of the nuclear treaty with India. One such complaint comes from Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who led congressional opposition to the deal, who says: `This deal is an historic mistake, It has shredded the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”

Well, I beg to differ. That treaty has already gone through the shredder. Those nuclear nation signers who have refrained from spreading the technology have only done so because they wanted to. All the rest have sold it to anyone with the money to buy. Russia is building a nuke plant in Iran. France was going to build one in Iraq until we messed that up by invading and everyone is competing to sell more reactors to China. We won. (Westinghouse Corp.)

With Pakistan and Russia selling the technology to all comers and Iran making all effort to get The Bomb, the Islamists have the Bomb. That right there negates any residual need for or concern over the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Non-signing nations that are or will spread the technology are Afghanistan, Iran and N. Korea.

Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Algeria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Israel, Libya, China and Britain all either possess or are persuing nuclear weapons.

Nuclear technology and weaponry has had 61 years to spread around the world. The Non-Proliferation Treaty was outdated and pointless a long time ago and the complaints against India joining us without having to sign that treaty are just political noise. This deal still isn’t final. The accord must still clear two more steps. India must reach an agreement with the UN’s nuclear watchdog on a regimen for international inspections of some of its facilities and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a 45-nation forum dedicated to limiting the spread of atomic weapons, must also approve the nuclear-export arrangement. Also, diplomats from the U.S. and India are still negotiating some of the agreement’s details. The measure Bush signed today retains the right of Congress to reject the final version.

We need India on our side. Past administrations have held India to the sidelines, so I have to give Bush credit for doing something right on this one. And I don’t do that very often.

Now if he will only learn to pronounce it NEW-CLE-ER instead of NEW-KEW-LER, the blockhead.

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