Normally I don't link to Whiskey Bar - cause I figure you either already read it or are not interested in political commentary by a brilliant, funny, bitter liberal.
Also I'm pretty hard to shock these days. I know where we are heading and why we are in this handbasket.
However:
A provision tucked into the 1,724-page energy bill ... would ease export restrictions on bomb-grade uranium, a lucrative victory for a Canadian medical manufacturer and its well-wired Washington lobbyists.
The Burr Amendment -- named for its sponsor, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) -- would reverse a 13-year-old U.S. policy banning exports of weapons-grade uranium unless the recipients agree to start converting their reactors to use less-dangerous uranium
...By contrast, Nordion already has enough highly enriched uranium to make one or two Hiroshima-size bombs, and its factories do not have to meet the same security standards as Energy Department facilities.
Every medical function enriched uranium can perform can be done without enriched uranium - at a higher cost. Apparently raising costs for a large Republican campaign contributor is too high a price to pay to keep Al Queda from acquiring nuclear weapons. Billmon refers to this as the "Arm Osama Amendment" and suggest we have enter the "hazy area between corruption and treason". He has a point.
I'm always surprised when anything this administration does shocks me.
Since it has not yet expired - here is the full Washingtonpost article:
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