you are the joke, MichaelK.

while u waste your life away on pseudo-intellectual arguments, we autralians are in action, putting in place a system to sell uranium to india.

you are losing the war.

stop us if you can, heh, heh, heh....

Selling uranium is like being a gunshop owner in the Bronx, you sell an instrument of death to a customer who has convinced you legally that they have nothing but the best intention's for its use. They tell their friends which creats demand for it and inevitably it always ends up with someone innocent being killed in the crossfire.

Maybe the answer is to sell the guns to everyone, that way people might be too scared to use it for fear of retaliation, anyway I would rather see us selling it to both India and Pakistan than Israel and George Bush's America.

yindin,

sell to pakistan at your own risk - it is a terror exporting country. Trails of all major terrorists in the last decade lead back to pakistan which is well known for state sponsored terror.

no matter how much you dislike the USA or Israel, you know deep inside that they will never attack Australia or cause it harm. They may do some mild arm twisting or be selfish, but that's where it stops. whereas china and pakistan and the middle east can and will do major harm to us if we don't watch out.

I attended the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties hearing regarding China. Ongoing evidence of ineffective safeguards is more than reason enough not to export uranium at all...

Danger: nuke cover-up
3/9/07

THE agency dealing with Australia's uranium exports is making an absurd claim.

The Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office says Australia sells uranium only to countries with "impeccable" non-proliferation credentials.

In fact, Australia has uranium export agreements with nuclear weapon states that are failing to fulfil their disarmament obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Australia is also dealing with states with a history of covert nuclear weapons research based on their "civil" nuclear programs.

Last year's debate on uranium sales to China showed the Safeguards Office at its worst.

ASNO did not know the number of nuclear facilities in China, nor which of these would process uranium and its by-products, was dismissive of China having the worst record of exports of proliferation- sensitive materials and know-how of any of the nuclear weapon states and claims that all nuclear materials derived from Australia's uranium exports are "fully accounted for".

But that claim is false. There are frequent accounting discrepancies involving Australia's nuclear exports.

What ASNO means when it says that nuclear material is "fully accounted for" is that it has accepted all the explanations provided by uranium customer countries for accounting discrepancies, however fanciful those explanations may be.

Perhaps the most misleading of the claims made by ASNO is its repeated assertion that nuclear power does not present a weapons proliferation risk.

In fact, power reactors have been used directly in weapons programs.

Some examples include India, which is reserving eight out of 22 power reactors for weapons production.

The inevitable conclusion arising from our detailed critique of the Safeguards Office is that, at best, it is ineffectual.

Prof RICHARD BROINOWSKI - former Australian ambassador and Assoc Prof TILMAN RUFF - Australian chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Full: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22350333-5000117,00.html

http://www.VoteNuclearFree.net

Only idiots are happy with a motto and conditions of “non-proliferation” because using uranium purchased for civilian programmes not to prevent own resource from military deployment but just allows conservation of own strategic disposals.

Those trading Australian national resources (uranium especially) are more dangerous to this country than all saddams existing on the Earth because they harm already the future generations practically, while any terrorist-to-date could affect presumably.