In talking incessantly about the WMDs that weren't there, we are missing the WMDs (the worst kind - nukes) that were there and were being handed out to all the declared enemies of the US and state sponsors of terrorism - by Pakistan. At the same time, Pakistan's military and intellligence agencies are riddled with Al Qaeda and Taliban sympathizers, and its intelligence chief was suspected of links to 9/11.
Here's a direct quote from today's Washington Post: 'Rather than moving to impose sanctions on Pakistan -- action that might be expected for a government that has been caught providing the technology for nuclear weapons to such countries as Iran, Libya and North Korea -- it has swallowed his coverup and even congratulated him on it. "We value the commitments Mr. Musharraf has made to prevent the expertise in Pakistan from reaching other places," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday. "We think that Pakistan is taking serious efforts to end the activities of a dangerous network." As for the pardon of Mr. Khan -- who by Pakistan's account is probably the worst criminal in the history of nuclear weapons proliferation -- "I don't think it's a matter for the United States to sit in judgment on," Mr. Boucher said.'
President Bush is going against his own "pre-emptive doctrine" by giving Pakistan a free pass, while he spent the past year waging war on Iraq.
Subodh