Speech #990205405

Let us understand that we are unilaterally tying our hands behind our back. notwithstanding the fact that the Krasnoyarsk radar. the SS25s. are violations by the Soviet Union of this treaty. notwithstanding the fact that we are going to go ahead and not worry about the Soviet Unions violations. the same country that pledged free access in and out of Berlin and then built the Berlin Wall. notwithstanding the fact that that is a country that said it would not put offensive missiles in Cuba and then turned around and tried to 25 years ago. It is the same country that signed treaties of friendship with Hungary and Czechoslovakia and then invaded those countries. It is the same country that invaded Afghanistan and signed the Helsinki accords and proceeded since to crush human rights at home and deny thousands of their own citizens to emigrate. It is the same country that lied to us about flight 007 and lied to us about the Chernobyl disaster and expects us to believe that they have the best intentions in the world of complying with the SALT accords. I just want to sum up by saying that we have wellintentioned people who come before this House and say. "Well. we should abide by the SALT Treaty because otherwise we are going to have nuclear proliferation." Ladies and gentlemen. we have nuclear proliferation.