STATEMENT ON BENAZIR BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION MADE BY SOCIALIST PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
Nuclear Proliferation Threat Can Only Be Resolved by U.S. De-Nuclearization, Outlawing of WMD's and End to Weapon Sales---Not Bombing of Country's Facilities
Moore is the only official political party presidential nominee in the nation, as of this date.
The Socialist Party candidate said Ms. Bhutto's death called attention to the "issue of the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons" and whether the world can be reassured that such materials and technology will "remain in safe hands during any transition of power."
Socialist Moore criticized the U.S. government's ambivalent foreign policies, vacillating nuclear proliferation rules and embargos and blatant support of American corporate weapon sales as the cause for such global insecurity. Moore says that America's greed and self-interest "only encourages nuclear weapon instability and proliferation threats," despite the U.S.'s frantic "Johnny-come-lately" actions to keep Pakistan nuclear weapons out of the hands of anti-American groups or new governments should President Musharrif's regime topple.
Presidential candidate Moore said the U.S. government "should have thought about these dangers beforehand" to its war on terrorism, to its efforts in establishing democracy in Pakistan and in controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology! The candidate accused the U.S. of "turning a blind eye to Pakistan's clandestine nuclear buildup as far back as 1972" based on recently de-classified U.S. documents.
Moore further blamed the U.S.'s "favored treatment" of Pakistan's arch enemy, India, and Israel, by supporting the U.S.'s own economic interests and weapons deals "at the expense of Pakistan."
Comparing the socialist Party's platform on the vital issues of nuclear proliferation, Moore said the Socialist Party's nuclear proliferation policies contrasted sharply with Washington's past and present policies, thereby highlighting the consequences of the two opposite economic systems. The socialist Party USA has called for unconditional disarmament, the international outlawing of all weapons of mass destruction and an end to U.S. arm sales throughout the world. Moore urged a "more even-handed and balanced approach" in its ties with India and Pakistan "instead of political expediency and economic self-interest."
Presidential candidate Brian Moore went even further in his statement saying that the United States needs to "make a monumental push for global nuclear disarmament" as the only solution to finally halting nuclear threats to the world. "We must de-nuclearize our nuclear stockpiles," Moore emphasized.
Moore said that President Bush saw Musharraf's leadership as the "protector of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal." However, Moore said "that is the crux of this dilemma" facing the U.S. "The U.S. has no one to blame but itself," the presidential candidate emphasized. He blamed the U.S. 's nuclear and arm sales throughout the world as putting the global community "in a very vulnerable position."
Moore reported that U.S. military intelligence in 2000 estimated that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal "may be as large as 100 warheads." Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program is "based primarily on highly-enriched uranium," only obtained on the black market from external sources. On the otherhand, Pakistan's arch enemy, India, produces its nuclear warheads from plutonium production, which is developed internally in the country.
Moore referred to his own work experiences in South America in the health care field and exposure to mineral mines spanning three decades. During his two years in Bolivia in 1987 and 1988, he visited the mineral mines in Potosi, Bolivia, high up in the Andes mountains. Since the 1500's the mines in Potosi produced gold and silver for Spain, and later tin. However, most recently, Bolivia has reactivated its mines, in part, for uranium production for nuclear material development. While Moore was touring the Potosi mines, a Chinese contingent from its' government and the private sector passed him by in the mine's long tunnels, which Moore reported in a newspaper article for a Washington, DC weekly community in 1987.
Moore also became familiar with other mine operations in Peru, Chile and Peru during his Peace Corps stint from 1969 to 1972 and later on in 1985, 1987 and 1988 in Bolivia; and then in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala in the l990's.
Moore concluded that China's key role in Pakistan's nuclear development from the 1970's through the 1990's was reflected in part from his personal experience of observing the Chinese's mine explorations in Latin America during some of those same time periods.
The U.S.'s "hot and cold application of sanctions" against Pakistan were always contingent upon America's political needs at the time, thereby "contributing to Pakistan's vulnerability today," Moore said.
Moore further reported on the large sale of F-16 airplanes to Pakistan by American corporations, with the most recent contract in September, 2006, for 36 aircraft, worth $5 billion, aiding in the expansion of Pakistan's vehicle capacity to carry and deliver nuclear warheads.
Moore said that "America wants it both ways"---supporting the sales of weapons ...while turning a blind eye to nuclear development "when politically convenient." Moore writes "this is what has gotten the U.S., and the world, in trouble." He states that America's inconsistent and duplistic policies have "fostered anti-American feelings, the birth of more terrorists and created bigger threats to our own national security and to global peace." The Socialist Party presidential nominee says the same "Pakistan condition can be applied to the Iraq War situation as well."
Moore continued that Pakistan's uncertainty in its relation with the United States was best exemplified when the United States prepared to launch an attack on the Afghan Taliban after 9/11. This caused Musharrif to redeploy its nuclear arsenal to "at least six secret new locations," out of fear that the U.S. would conduct military strikes against Pakistan's nuclear assets despite the U.S.'s claim to the contrary.
Presidential Nominee Moore concluded that the U.S.'s solutions to its self-imposed weapons sales and nuclear proliferation dilemmas is to "destroy a country's nuclear capabilities," despite its involvement in the country's early buildup. Moore pointed out that the U.S. is threatening to bomb Iran, North Korea, and even Pakistan; as well as supporting Israel's recent bombing of Syria's suspected nuclear facilities and in other Middle East countries.
Socialist Party Presidential Nominee Brian Moore compares the stark contrast of how two different economic systems operate when it comes to nuclear warfare, and obviously concludes that the socialist system, while stark, is "utterly and wholly clear" as to what is better for the world and mankind.
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