It was an extraordinary public airing of differences between a current vice president of the United States and his predecessor.
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And there are a lot of liberal commentators saying, what is thePresidentoftheUnitedStates -- thecurrentPresident -- going to do about this, when you have a former Vice President basically saying, I'm a supporter of waterboarding, and basically that the last administration did waterboard, when this currentPresident has said that waterboarding is torture and is thus illegal?
The hardiest perennial in the anti-testing campaign and a prominent feature ofthecurrent effort to induce President Clinton to reject a resumption of nuclear testing is the argument that unless theUnitedStates observes a moratorium on nuclear testing, the former Soviet Union will resume its own test program and come, thereby, to field a more threatening offensive nuclear force.