Leopold Stotch wrote:
U.S. has *not* done is sell nuclear technology to complete wackjobs (and
Ahmadinejad/Iran is just the latest in a string of such sales).

Iran has signed the NPT and for the last couple of years at least, has
abided by its rules and declared what it was doing. Even the CIA has now
publically admitted that there was no factual information to support the
Bush factual accusations that Iran was building "nukular" bombs.


Meanwhile, Israel refuses to sign the NPT and its onwership of nuclear
bombs in a rather sensitive part of the middle east continues to be
condoned by the USA who hasn't lifted a finger to try to get Israel to
sign the NPT.

Similarly, India refuses to sign the NPT , and Bush has recently decided
to sell them nuclear technology and nuclear fuel (I assume "nukular" is
a USA trademark for nuclear stuff :-)

India is right next to Pakistan which is is under military dictatorship
and whose military has control over the bombs. Not exactly a very stable
area, especially when you consider both countries still have unreseoved
land disputes.



At this point in time, Russia/Putin is reflexively anti-US.

The world is anti-USA. Putin is simply playing the public opinion game
to win support. Had the USA public not re-elected Bush in 2004, things
would be quite different now.