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President George Bush, who was "eager for any foreign policy win" before the expiry of his term in January 2009, is pressing the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "hard to finally work this (nuclear deal) out," The New York Times said.
In an editorial headlined, 'No Rush, Please', the American daily argued "there is no reason at all to rush.
President Bush gave away far too much and got far too little for this deal".
Even as it praised President Bush for building on the Clinton administration legacy to forge stronger ties with "a burgeoning power whose democratic values provide a unique basis for cooperation," the daily said: "It was a mistake to let India and industry lobbyists persuade him to make the nuclear deal the centerpiece."
The Times underlined that now it would be "a mistake for the United States to try and ram through the remaining approvals by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and Congress just to meet the artificial deadline of Bush’s Presidency."
It said President Bush may be running out of time, but Congress, the IAEA and the NSG "will need plenty of it to review the agreement before deciding whether to grant their respective approvals."
"At a minimum, they must insist that international suppliers halt nuclear trade if India tests another nuclear weapon, as it last did in 1998. And they must insist that India accept the fullest possible monitoring of its civilian nuclear facilities by IAEA inspectors," the daily stressed.


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i dont know what exactly we the human beings are going to gain from the Ndeal, apart from political issue, the one thing which is highly needed to concern is nature, already global warming is increasing tremondously like any thing, it would make our world to take war against us with the help of some weapons like tsunami, this(Ndeal) would be the key for another nuclear world war and i think that would be the last world war, because after that there will be no world to make a world war..............!