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The neocons are losing face around the globe! Instead of making friends, they are making enemies from our allies who fear the motives behind the neocons plans! Just another mess that will be left for Hillary to clean up when she takes office! She is going to be a busy women cleaning up all the messes "dumbya" and company are leaving for her!

From The Times October 17, 2007

Phone call derails controversial deal to attract India into nuclear fold

Jeremy Page in Delhi

India has officially informed the United States that it has frozen a nuclear deal that was supposed to herald a strategic alliance between the biggest democracy in the world and the richest.

Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, telephoned President Bush on Monday night to tell him that the deal had run into difficulties because of opposition from his communist allies. “The Prime Minister explained to President Bush that difficulties have arisen with respect to operationalisation of the India-US civil nuclear co-operation agreement,” the Indian Government said.

The Americans said that they would continue to work on the deal but analysts and diplomats said it would not be ready for approval by the US Congress before the end of the Bush Administration. “It’s over. The Americans are distraught,” one Western diplomat told The Times. “The embassy has been working on little else for two years.” The deal’s failure is a huge embarrassment for Mr Singh, who gave it his personal backing, and for Mr Bush, who was hoping it would be a foreign policy success.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article
2670051.ece