Who The Hell Is Advising Him!?!?

[funranium]

This was hidden in the body of an AP story about Bush's visit to India to discuss our selling nuclear material:

They announced new bilateral cooperation on an array of issues from investment to trade, health to the environment, agriculture to technology, and even mangoes. Bush agreed to resume imports of the juicy, large-pitted fruit after a ban of nearly two decades.

"Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangoes," he said.

Seriously, we have decided to sell nuclear material and technology, to a nation in abrogation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty of which we are a signatory and they are not, FOR FREAKIN' MANGOES? There is no mango exception to the NPT!!!

Now I like a mango soft serve ice cream as much as the next guy, but what in the nether hell is going on?

Comments

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Stop asking questions you do not want the answers to.

[leifvignirsson.livejournal.com]

Obviously he is refering to Chris Katain (sp) and his Mango character from SNL, duh!

[zardra.livejournal.com]

This leaves me wondering if the President even knows what a mango is.

[blark.livejournal.com]

Condoleza Rice's area of expertise is Cold War politics. Given that India was isolationist in the conflict, but apparently leaned more towards Moscow than Washington, it seems pretty obvious to me that her hand is in this. What a nice way to further our Cold War victory by continuing to bring people to our side! Don't worry about humanitarian conditions there, we just need to make sure their nukes work properly, and that their mangoes come to where they belong... American tummies.

Indians love freedom, you see. Haven't you ever seen a Bollywood flick? That's freedom in its purest form.

[graymalkn.livejournal.com]

It is clear what is causing this - Mind Control Mango Chutney.

But really I think what's happening is that they're trying the carrot rather than the stick. With this deal, several of their nuclear reactors will be open to international inspection, and presumably they hope to press this in the future to include all Indian reactors.