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Originally posted by Superbelt
If he won't fix the human rights problems in his country with the human rights rules for our money in place, the ones that threaten to take the money away from him, what incentive will he have to improve after we give him a waiver on national security grounds?
He knows he has something we want, (military uses and nuke collections (And I wouldn't rule out oil securing, but that's minor)) and now he knows we want it enough not to care about how he runs his country.
Bush doesn't care. He waived the rules. He didn't give him an extension, he waived the rules.
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He waved the rules to allow for the payments to get rid of the nukes. The very fact that there is the ability to wave the human rights abuse rules shows that there are no teeth to the requirement of improving human rights. If you put conditions on supplying the money to destroy these weapons, what do you think will happen? Do you think they'll continue to destroy the weapons out of the goodness of their hearts? Nuclear warheads on the black market is a greater threat to the world than the human rights violations occuring in Uzbekistan. And before you go back to your standard response of "you'd think differently if it were your family being boiled alive", of course I don't want to see anyone boiled alive. But I also don't want to see a city obliterated by a nuke either.