Article XV ABM

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Article XV of the ABM treaty states:

Article XV

1. This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration.

2. Each Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this Treaty have jeopardized its supreme interests. It shall give notice of its decision to the other Party six months prior to withdrawal from the Treaty. Such notice shall include a statement of the extraordinary events the notifying Party regards as having jeopardized its supreme interests.  

The violation of the treaty is that even Dubya won't be able to trump up "extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty" to justify scrapping it.  The frequently heard rationalization from Dubya and his mouthpieces is that we have to protect ourselves from "rogue nations".  Yet nobody can make a case that there is a credible threat of a direct nuclear assault by anyone else in the world except Russia or China.  That is the dirty little secret of this nonsense.  Dubya's throng of Cold Warrior advisors is expecting relations with the Russians and Chinese to go south and put the US back in the Cold War.

ONE DEFINITION of "rogue nation" that I frequently hear is "a country that refuses to abide by its treaties."  Dubya's policies ARE TURNING THE US INTO A ROGUE NATION.  Please take a moment to contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them to block this madness.