If this planet blows to pieces this year, thank Khan Labs' and Bush

[seemslikeadream]

You may never have heard of Khan Laboratories, but if this planet blows to pieces this year, it will be thanks to Khan Labs' creating nuclear warheads for Pakistan's military. Because investigators had been tracking the funding for this so-called "Islamic Bomb" back to Saudi Arabia, under Bush security restrictions, the inquiry was stymied. (The restrictions were lifted, the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)

Noam Chomsky, who read the story on page one of the Times of India, has wondered, "Why wasn't it all over US papers?

.. A top-level CIA operative who spoke with us on condition of strictest anonymity said that, after Bush took office, "There was a major policy shift" at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to "back off" from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the Bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off limits for investigation.

I probed our CIA contact for specifics of investigations that were hampered by orders to back off of the Saudis. He told us that Khan Laboratories investigation had been effectively put on hold.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

[G_j]

1. sounds like something the Dem candidates

should be examining, along with the rest of the Saudi connections.

[enough]

2. I can never understand

why people think Bush* is "strong" on national security. This story is an excellent example of how he sells out national (and global) security without even noticing.

[nostamj]

5. the 'stand down' that really matters

is not what happened on 9/11 but what happened as soon as bushco seized power... the stand down on ANY investigation of those good buddies of the Bush family, the Saudi royal family.

the lives lost on 9/11 and since are on their collective hands.

so i wrote this rant...

[AG78]

8. Hey hey hey hey hey hey...

Pakistan is our friend. Iraq was the enemy.

We bombed Iraq because we thought they might have nuclear weapons, and might someday sometime on a future date sell one to a terrorist.

We don't bomb Pakistan because we know they have nuclear weapons, and have been selling nuclear technology to countries around the world for the better part of a decade. Oh yeah, and they're helping us with that other guy. The guy we trained 20 years ago. Whatever his name was.

History never dies. We teamed up with Stalin. We teamed up with Hussein. We've done it before, and we'll do it again. We do it in the Central Asian countries today.

I don't know if people don't know it, or if people know it but don't care because as long as the important American people have what they want, we deserve it because we can kick everyone's ass from here to Mars a thousand times over.

As with the Vikings, and the Romans, the Egyptians, the Nazis, the Europeans, and whoever else came before us, we're no different. It's all about power. It's not about freedom for human beings. Never has been. This is just another saga in the long line of geo-political chess games that have been going on forever. It's the struggle against existence itself that's been going on forever.

Why we have to live with the crap that's been thrust upon us from generations(100's, 1000's of years ago), is enough to make you cry. It never stops.

[evil_orange_cat]

3. how is the planet going to get blow to pieces?

even if all the nukes on earth were used, it still wouldn't exterminate the human population, nor would it mean our extinction...

[htuttle]

4. Oh my... you need to learn more about modern thermonuclear devices

We aren't talking Hiroshima anymore. Think of Hiroshima X 1000 in each warhead. The amount of dust cause by only a few ground detonations would cause global weather changes as much as the biggest volcano.

If all the nukes on Earth were used, it would be very dark for a long, long time. I wouldn't bet on anything larger than a carrion beetle surviving for very many years...

[seemslikeadream]

6. evil_orange_cat

your ignorance really scares me! :nuke:

[K-W]

7. Oh, absolutely right, now I have to go walk my dinosaur.

we are talking shifts in the ecosphere that would eclipse any known ecological disaster.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Just a kick

cause bush is talking about those bad nukes right now.:nuke: