The man who created what is known in his country as the "Islamic Nuclear Bomb" has confessed to selling or giving away the secrets to recreating his work to some of the most wretched dictators in the world. Abdul Qadeer Khan, widely revered in Pakistan for building, likely from black market information, the first nuclear weapon in his country. This development "balanced" the development a couple years prior of a nuclear weapon in India.
In selling plans and knowledge of how to build a nuclear weapon - a true "weapon of mass destruction" - to Iran, Libya and North Korea, Abdul Khan is likely deserving of being sent before the Hague for crimes against humanity. And yet, because his country is, if not in deed then in word, an ally of BushCo's imperial adventures, you can be sure that the U.S. will officially accept his "apology" and require no more of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf.
Khan made an abject apology on Pakistani TV saying that nobody in the government knew what was going on - over the course of two decades. On the face of it, this seems absolutely ludicrous. It is likely that nothing goes on in Pakistan without the military knowing about it. And Musharraf is the head of the military. The odds of him not knowing what his chief nuclear weapons scientist was doing are infinitesimal.
But aWol has looked Pervez Musharraf in the eyes and found him to be an honorable man and a worthy ally. Therefore, he is to be taken at his word. Nothing will happen to Khan. Nothing will happen to Musharraf. Nothing will happen to our relationship with Pakistan.
If the Democrats don't take this as another bludgeon in their attacks on Shrubby's international policies they are fools. They have an almost unlimited arsenal in such an attack. They should hammer him. Mercilessly.
John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Wes Clark... we're waiting.
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