Attacking President George Bush for initiating the "ill-conceived"
nuclear deal as the "centerpiece" of Indo-US bilateral ties, a leading US daily on Monday appealed to the Senate to postpone its vote on the pact.
"We hope that the Senate shows better judgement," the
New York Times said in an editorial, ahead of the Senate's likely vote on the legislation on Wednesday.
The American House of Representatives had approved the deal by an overwhelming majority on Saturday.
The
Times said the approval of deal would make it even harder to rein in nuclear ambitions being perused by countries like Iran.
'India is a democracy, a rising power that has sent many thousands of talented people to live and work in the United States," the paper noted and said Bush has correctly chosen to build a new relationship with India. But he erred in making the nuclear deal the centerpiece of that relationship. And he erred in assuming that he could selectively break the nuclear rules for India and still argue that other countries had to do a lot more to rein in Iran.'
'The deal approved by the House fails to meet legal requirements set previously by Congress,' it said.
Stating that the deal was
pressed hard by American businesses and Indian lobbyists, the
Times said President Bush and his aides were so eager for a foreign-policy
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