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How the U.S. Has Secretly Backed Pakistan’s Nuclear Program From Day One
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“If the worst, the unthinkable, were to happen,” Hillary Clinton recently told Fox News, “and this advancing Taliban encouraged and supported by Al Qaeda and other extremists were to essentially topple the government … then they would have keys to the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan.” Many will note that the extremists posing this unthinkable prospect were set up in business by the U.S. in the first place. Very well buried is the fact that the nuclear arsenal that must not be allowed to fall into the hands of our former allies has been itself the object of U.S. encouragement over the years and is to this very day in receipt of crucial U.S. financial assistance and technical support.
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| Pakistan’s drive to build more nukes is an inevitable by-product of the 2008 nuclear cooperation deal with India that overturned U.S. law and gave the Indians access to US nuclear technology, not to mention massive arms sales, despite their ongoing bomb program. | |
Back in 1979, Zbigniew Brzezinski, intent on his own jihad against the USSR, declared that the “Afghan resistance” should be supplied with money and arms. That, of course, required full Pakistani cooperation, which would, Brzezinski underlined, “require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, more arms aid, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.” In other words, Pakistan was free to get on with building a bomb so long as we could arm the people who have subsequently come back to haunt us. Asked for his views on Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions, Ronald Reagan replied “I just don’t think it’s any of our business.” During the years that the infamous A.Q. Khan was peddling his uranium enrichment technology around the place, his shipping manager was a CIA agent, whose masters seem to have had little problem with allowing the trade to go forward.
Now comes word from inside the Obama government that little has changed. “Most of the aid we’ve sent them over the past few years has been diverted into their nuclear program,” a senior national security official in the current administration recently told me. Most of this diverted aid — $5.56 billion as of a year ago – was officially designated “Coalition Support Funds” for Pakistani military operations against the Taliban. It may be that this diversion came as a terrible shock to Washington, but the money has been routinely handed over essentially without accounting being required from the Pakistanis. The GAO has huffed at items such as the $30 million shelled out for non-existent roads, of the $1.5 million for “naval vehicles damaged in combat” but that was as far as public complaints went. In the meantime, as Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mullen confirmed recently, the Pakistanis have been urgently increasing their nuclear weapons production.
A former national security official with knowledge of the policy explained this insouciance to me. “We want to get in there and manage [their nuclear program]. If we manage it, we can make sure they don’t start testing, or start a war.” In other words, the U.S. is helping the Pakistanis to modernize their nuclear arsenal in hopes that the U.S. will thereby gain a measure of control. The official aim of U.S. technical support, at an estimated cost of $100 million a year, is to render the Pakistani weapons safer, i.e., less likely to go off if dropped, and more “secure”, meaning out of the reach of our old friends the extremists.
However, in pursuit of this objective, it is inevitable that the U.S. is not only rendering the warheads more operationally reliable, we are also transferring the technology required to design more sophisticated warheads without having to test them, a system known as “stockpile stewardship.”
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“If you’re not confident that weapons are safe to handle, you’re more likely to keep them in the basement,” says nuclear command and control expert Bruce Blair, President of the World Security Institute. “The military is always pressuring to deploy the weapons, which requires an increase in readiness.” In 2008 Blair himself was approached by the Pakistani military seeking advice on means to render their weapons more secure. Their aim, he says, was clearly to render their nuclear force “mature,” and “operational.” In the same way, says Blair, a few years ago an Indian military delegation turned up at the Russian Impulse Design Bureau in St. Petersburg, to ask for help on making their weapons safer to handle. “They said they wanted to be able to assure their political leadership that their weapons were safe enough to be deployed.”
Pakistan’s drive to build more nukes is an inevitable by-product of the 2008 nuclear cooperation deal with India that overturned U.S. law and gave the Indians access to US nuclear technology, not to mention massive arms sales, despite their ongoing bomb program.
The deal blew an enormous hole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but initial protests from congressional doves were soon smothered under human-wave assaults by arms company and nuclear industry lobbyists. The Israelis lent additional and potent assistance on Capital Hill. Not coincidentally, Israeli arms dealers, promised a significant slice of the action, have garnered at least $1.5 billion worth of orders from Delhi. (The respected Israeli daily Haaretz has highlighted Indian media reports that the bribes involved totaled $120 million.) Nuclear power’s handmaiden, the global warming lobby, was also a wellspring of ardent support, led by Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian railroad engineer who is Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared Al Gore’s Nobel prize.) Even the Dalai Lama was drafted in to use his influence with impressionable members of congress.
The consequent success in overturning a longstanding arms control treaty, which in turn has led to the U.S. extending a helping hand to India’s nuclear rivals in Pakistan, should only be seen as the wave of the future. Instead of foaming at the Iranian nuclear program, we should be standing at the ready to oversee their design of safer, more reliable nukes, and after that, who knows? North Korea’s bomb probably need work too.
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June 24th, 2009 at 10:34 am
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I THINK IT’S ON RECORD THAT YOU ARE A PSYCHO LOONY.
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June 24th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 10:34 am
LOL
June 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
OOTZ
June 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am
yenta ootz
June 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Is this any real surprise?
I saw the news as Obongo Congo traveled around the globe sucking up to every dictator and tyrant in the “Muslim world”, and I got to thinking, just what is this Muslim world?
I decided that one can know when your in the Muslim world when every kind of technology, from a screw driver to a super computers has a sticker on it that says, “IMPORTED”.
So, the Taliban gets hold of an atom bomb? What are they going to do with it? These guys live in the dark ages. They shit on the ground, unless they have an imported toilet, and some foreigner showed them how to use it, and it has water brought to it by imported pipes from and imported pump on top of a well that was drilled by some other foreigner, with imported equipment. Well, I
think you get my drift.
These guys are way backward S.O.B.’s, and that is the way they like it! They hate the modern world because they don’t have the mental capacity to cope with it. They hate the concept of freedom because there is too many choices. They got left behind and they resent it very much. Even though they have no one to blame but themselves. So now they wish they could drag the world back down to their level.
The only way they can be of danger to us is if their CIA handlers or some such other entity does it for them. These people are little better off than cave men. They have no concept of machines or any other complex systems. They are the useful idiots of the NWO, as so many others. If they get control of nukes and use them it will be only because it suits the ruling class for them to do so.
They themselves are little more than another false flag. Like the Soviet Union, we keep distracted looking at them while the real enemy is at our door stealing every last dime of our wealth and every last vestige of our freedom.
Keep your head up and your eyes open!
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!
Endgame2 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
There are many elements within the Pakistani Army and the ISI which are sympathetic to the Taliban. And they know how to arm and fire a nuclear missile to it’s target.
BobSam Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
The ISI and the Taliban are the right and left hand of the same body.
...............................0 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I would not be surprised at anything my once proud country could come up with. When evil reigns anything could happen. The only way to save this country (in my opinion) would be several ropes in Washington.
David Rockefeller Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Let’s make up a new nucleair false flag attack in …let’s say…Los Angeles…so we can finish the job in Pakistan…how about that ???
Julian Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
ISI, Taliban and Al Qaeda all have ties to our CIA.
Every Empire needs a nemesis and we have farms producing them to last for a 100 years of war.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:52 am
So, FFGHHK.
I’ll bet you’ll be glad when school starts and you’ll have something to do.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Disturbing hyperlink burried in the rocket pitcure. Only noticeable if you copy the picture or the article.
JonVon Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 11:21 am
please post hyperlink
John Henke Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Just click on the rocket.
That is weird.
...............................0 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
That IS weird.
Pra Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
WTF???
That’s very strange. Anyone at infowars care to explain that?
Prax
homer Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I checked and the hyperlink to the Hate Crime PDF exists on several pictures in several other articles. Kinda weird.
nader paul kucinich gravel Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 11:41 am
It’s the KY Hate Crime Report pdf
June 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors
Incomplete incomplete
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
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Black and whites of youth
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Absalom absalom absalom
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June 24th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Why would they hide a hate crime article under a missile? Weird.
Pra Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Why would it hyperlink to that anyways, that’s my question.
Prax
June 24th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Pakistan is a Chinese pawn.
All these are Chinese backed hysteria that doesn’t want Indians to have nuclear fuel.
India had atomic weapons much earlier than Pakistanis had, and that program was started after India’s defeat in a war with China. Since then China have laid claim on a full Indian state and built massive military infrastructure around that disputed region. Indians are freaked out and needs a nuke arm to counter China.
Chinese doesn’t want to face future competition from the Indians and they are using ‘nuclear hysteria’ as an excuse to stop India’s access to Uranium (which is very rare in Indian minerals).
Please don’t be fooled guys, consider India’s need for energy resources too. This article fails to mention that after the US-India nuclear accord India is also making nuclear deals with Russia and France..and it’s because of this deal India had to open many of it’s nuclear sites for international inspections (a NPT clause, which India is not a signatory).
Endgame2 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Also research Chinese STRING OF PEARLS STRATEGY. They are undergoing a massive military buildup in the South-Asia -Gulf region to be extended upto Africa.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
When America decides its time to NUKE the cow piss drinkers then they will use Pakistan as their patsy.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:38 am
it`s THE BANKERS…….IT NOT THE PEOPLE!, History have shown many time,How the banker fund both side of the war.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am
It wouldn’t surprise me if the “Powers That Be” (PTB) actually WANT a nuclear war in SE Asia. That is the most densely populated area of the planet. A war between the Pakis and the the Indians might thin out the “herd” quite nicely. Hell, if they’re lucky, China might even get involved, and then we could kill a lot of birds with a few stones. Just the sort of job nukes are meant for.
Ken
http://www.LaserGuidedLoogie.com