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Originally Posted by JP5";p="
I'll bet you were really upset when the Clinton Administration gave special treatment to Loral Space and Communications in its sensitive dealings with China's space agency.
Especially since Loral's chief executive officer, Bernard Schwartz, was a major Democratic donor.
After all, President Clinton signed a waiver allowing Schwartz's company to sell missile technology to China over the objection of the Pentagon.
That must have really p'ssd you off, eh? Wonder if that's some of the same missiles that Clinton gave his special donor friend permission to sell?
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I believe that we did not sell missile technology to China. We let them launch our satellites. Quite a difference there. Then Loral scientists gave them info. for free on how to keep their rockets from blowing up.
"U.S. intelligence discovered in 1993 that China had sold missile technology to Pakistan. Because of bipartisan Congressional demands, Clinton barred the U.S. space industry from using Chinese rockets to launch their satellites. U.S. satellites were put on the "munitions" list, the list of our most sensitive military and intelligence-gathering technology. The reason these commercial satellites are important is because they carry technological secrets essential to "significant military and intelligence interests."
In June 1994, the CEO of Loral Space and Communications, Bernard Schwartz, made a $100,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee. He then joined a Ron Brown trip to China that led to a $250 million telecommunications deal for Loral's satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets.
In October 1994, Clinton lifted the sanctions he had imposed on China for selling missile technology to Pakistan. In early 1995, Schwartz sent a letter to Clinton urging that responsibility for satellite-export licenses be shifted from the State Department to the Commerce Department. Meanwhile, both Schwartz and Johnny Chung made more huge donations, in excess of $100,000, to the Democratic Party.
On February 6, 1996, despite reports that China continued to export nuclear technology to Pakistan and missiles to Iran, and over the objections of our State and Defense Departments, Clinton signed waivers for four U.S. satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets. On the very same day, Wang Jun (a "Chinese arms dealer") attended one of Clinton's now-famous campaign coffees in the White House and spent some time in Ron Brown's Commerce Department office. Wang Jun owns a huge stake in a Chinese enterprise that benefited from Clinton's waivers, China International Trade and Investment Corporation.
On Feb. 15, 1996, the Chinese rocket launching a $200-million Loral satellite blew up. Without telling the U.S. Government, Loral scientists prepared a 200-page report advising China how to improve the guidance of its missiles and forwarded this helpful advice to China without Pentagon approval."
http://nashville.craigslist.org/pol/133762503.html
In any case we are taking about Bush not Clinton and we are talking about Iran who does not as yet have a nuclear tipped ICBM as opposed to China which did at the time.