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 Stop the India nuke deal - Peace Action URGENT 
  
 Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit 
  
 sent by Kevin Martin, Peace Action - Nov 14, 2006 
 Peaceact@mail.democracyinaction.org 
  
 Stop the India nuke deal - National Call In to the Senate 
  
 Incredibly enough, the Bush Administration is trying to secure Senate 
 approval as early as this week for a nuke deal that will reward Indias 
 nuclear ambitions, and encourage an arms race in Asia. 
  
 Even though stopping the spread of nuclear weapons is a critical priority 
 for all governments and every sane person in the world, the deal with India 
 would allow them to build up to 50 nuclear weapons every year, even though 
 India has repeatedly refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 
  
 A vote in the lame duck Senate could happen *this week*. Click here for a 
 toll free number and information to call you Senators TODAY, and tell them 
 to stop this madness! (And if you don't see this email until Wednesday, we 
 still urge you to make the calls to your senators - the recent election has 
 put almost everything in flux and we can't be 100% sure when this vote is 
 coming up.) 
  
 The nuclear deal with India is yet one more aspect of the Bush 
 Administrations wildly incoherent policies on nuclear weapons proliferation: 
 we invade Iraq over phantom nuclear weapons, threaten Iran with military 
 attacks for processing uranium, wink at Israels nuclear arsenal, give barely 
 a slap on the wrist to Pakistan's veritable nuclear Wal-Mart, and now reward 
 India for building nuclear weapons and refusing to sign nuclear treaties. 
  
 Not only has India refused to sign the NPT, it has conducted nuclear tests 
 and refuses to reduce or cap its nuclear arsenal in any way. It is one of 
 the few countries that has used "peaceful" nuclear technology to create 
 nuclear bombs, precisely what we must prevent from happening. Approving this 
 agreement would be one of the hugest mistakes this lame duck Senate could 
 make - but with enough opposition in the Senate - which ultimately means 
 opposition from you, the American public - we can still stop it. 
  
 Click here to call your Senators and stop the India nuke deal. 
  
 Its also critically important that the India nuke deal will provide sweeping 
 exceptions to long-standing U.S. laws that prohibit trade in nuclear 
 technology with countries building nuclear weapons. The deal will encourage 
 nuclear weapons production at precisely the time when the global framework 
 to prevent the spread of such weapons is under grave assault. 
  
 You have done fantastic work leading up to last weeks election, and soon we 
 will have a new Congress to work with. But we cannot let up our efforts 
 while we wait for that new Congress, and if we are going to contain the 
 spread of nuclear weapons I urge everyone of you to call your senators today 
 and tell them in no uncertain terms - stop the India nuke deal! And then let 
 your friends know, and ask them to call as well! 
  
 Sincerely, 
  
 Kevin M. Martin 
 Executive Director 
 Peace Action 
  
 p.s. - Please help stop this lame duck deal that threatens to upset all 
 global 
 norms against nuclear weapons proliferation - call your senators today and 
 tell them - no nuke deal for India! 
  
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