Bush’s Pakistan Paradox

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Where are the Robert Scheer's of television?
Seems like if the media were "librul" then we would be hearing more of these truths and not less.

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Bush’s Pakistan Paradox
Posted on Jul 10, 2007

By Robert Scheer

snippets:

"...The marker of what will go down in history as “Bush’s folly” is that this idiot of a president invaded a country that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorist attacks on the United States or WMD threats to America while coddling the military junta in Pakistan, which was guilty on both counts...."

"Recall that Bush boasted in his 2004 presidential debate with Democratic candidate John Kerry that “we busted the A.Q. Khan network,” when, in fact, neither Khan nor any of the top ringleaders of his nukes-for-sale operation have ever been brought to trial. Some had to hold high positions in the Pakistani government in order for the shipment of Pakistan’s most highly valued nuclear technology to go unimpeded. Perhaps it is for that reason U.S. agents have never been allowed to interview Khan, let alone subject him to the waterboarding torture reserved for those who wouldn’t know a nuke if it hit them upside the head."

FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070710_bushs_pakistan_paradox/

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1. Paradox and coincidence

Lost in all the hullabaloo over Dubya's commutation of the jail sentence handed former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was this little gem of a news item from Pakistan:

Pakistan eases curbs on atomic scientist
By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 2, 1:49 PM ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A.Q. Khan, the scientist who became a national hero for developing Pakistan's atomic bomb and went on to sell nuclear secrets abroad, can leave house arrest to meet with friends and relatives, officials said Monday.

Strange coincidence? Perhaps. But, not unrelated. For it’s a small, small world in spookdom.

Posted a last week here on DU and linked to: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/8/14653/71820