Dennis Kucinich: “This is a discussion that should have been happening a long time ago in this Congress. Because no one really talked that…”

“This is a discussion that should have been happening a long time ago in this Congress. Because no one really talked that deeply about the implication of our decision granting India the ability to gain access to fissile materials, in terms of the potential dialectic of conflict which develops between the proliferator, Pakistan, and India gaining the fissile materials. Mr. Wu has raised the point that is really central to the discussion about how do we protect world peace. How do we stop some kind of a conflagration from breaking out on the subcontinent if we do not have a consistent policy? I mean, we know as was pointed out in the WMDC report here, that in February of 1999, India and Pakistan signed a memorandum of understanding on a variety of nuclear confidence building measures. Both countries, however, this report says: "Are continuing their efforts to develop and produce nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles." So, Mr. Wu is right on in raising this. And this is the exact time this has to be raised, even though it is almost one in the morning on Saturday. I yield.”