Cheney role in arming Pakistan with The Bomb ignored by NPR today.

[Octafish]

Dust rises up as mountains shake during underground test-firing of Pakistani nuclear weapon.



Listening to a piece on "The Takeaway" today about China getting a hold of the U.S. helicopter that went down in OBL raid. Around the 3:00 minute mark, Gordon Chang, an Asia expert from Forbes mag, said China gave Pakistan the technology they needed to create nuclear weapon.

Unfortunately, the kindly NPR interviewers allowed the ommission to slide without comment. The thing is: Mr. Chang was not even close. In addition to China, Dr. A.Q. Khan and Pakistan received financial support from BCCI, the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International and many in the Reagan and Bush administrations, especially one Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney.

Of course, DU readers know that, thanks to DUer robertpaulsen.

[babsbunny]

1. I listen to NPR every day

and it is getting harder to listen every day.

[Octafish]

3. It's heartbreaking. Wonder if anyone there has heard of Richard Barlow?

The man who knew too much

EXCERPT...

In the late 80s, in the course of tracking down smugglers of WMD components, Barlow uncovered reams of material that related to Pakistan. It was known the Islamic Republic had been covertly striving to acquire nuclear weapons since India's explosion of a device in 1974 and the prospect terrified the west - especially given the instability of a nation that had had three military coups in less than 30 years . Straddling deep ethnic, religious and political fault-lines, it was also a country regularly rocked by inter-communal violence. "Pakistan was the kind of place where technology could slip out of control," Barlow says.

He soon discovered, however, that senior officials in government were taking quite the opposite view: they were breaking US and international non-proliferation protocols to shelter Pakistan's ambitions and even sell it banned WMD technology. In the closing years of the cold war, Pakistan was considered to have great strategic importance. It provided Washington with a springboard into neighbouring Afghanistan - a route for passing US weapons and cash to the mujahideen, who were battling to oust the Soviet army that had invaded in 1979. Barlow says, "We had to buddy-up to regimes we didn't see eye-to-eye with, but I could not believe we would actually give Pakistan the bomb.

How could any US administration set such short-term gains against the long-term safety of the world?" Next he discovered that the Pentagon was preparing to sell Pakistan jet fighters that could be used to drop a nuclear bomb.

Barlow was relentless in exposing what he saw as US complicity, and in the end he was sacked and smeared as disloyal, mad, a drunk and a philanderer. If he had been listened to, many believe Pakistan might never have got its nuclear bomb; south Asia might not have been pitched into three near-nuclear conflagrations; and the nuclear weapons programmes of Iran, Libya and North Korea - which British and American intelligence now acknowledge were all secretly enabled by Pakistan - would never have got off the ground. "None of this need have happened," Robert Gallucci, special adviser on WMD to both Clinton and George W Bush, told us. "The vanquishing of Barlow and the erasing of his case kicked off a chain of events that led to all the nuclear-tinged stand-offs we face today. Pakistan is the number one threat to the world, and if it all goes off - a nuclear bomb in a US or European city- I'm sure we will find ourselves looking in Pakistan's direction."

CONTINUED...

sic semper whistleblowers...

[peacetalksforall]

4. Everything related to news and news commentary smells on NPR.

[annabanana]

2. Attention new DUers!! There is a lot of documentation and information

that you need to understand just what we're up against. I urge you to dive into our archives...

[KoKo]

5. You need to give the LINK...so they can READ what we all know... Thanks!

:hug:

[Octafish]

10. Can't find DU's research section at the moment. Perhaps these'll be of help...

Dick Tracy's World War II nemesis, Pruneface, was a NAZI posing as a loyal American.



Crimestoppers! Know your Bush Family Evil Empire

Henry Paulson, Banker to the BFEE

Know your BFEE: Cultkeepers

Know your BFEE: It wasn’t Obama who Looted the Treasury and Banks. It was Bush and his Cronies.

Know your BFEE: John McCain, Dim Knight Errant of the War Party

Know your BFEE: Goldmine Sacked or The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

Know your BFEE: The Corrupt Bastards Club… with Lipstick

Know your BFEE: Olympic Games Show Who’s Best Friends Forever with Authoritarians and Dictators

Know your BFEE: 1984 Death of Outstanding Congressional Staffer Buried Poppy-Moon Relationship

Know your BFEE: Forget Rev. Wright! It’s Bush and His Cronies Who Owe an Apology for Rev. Moon!

Know your BFEE: GW Bush Covers Up His Lying America Into War

Know your BFEE: Bush and His Crooks with Badges Sent an Innocent Man to Jail

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Know your BFEE: Scions of the Military Industrial Complex

Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

Know your BFEE: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ford Covered Up CIA Murder of American Scientist

Know your BFEE: Money Trumps Peace. Always.

Know your BFEE: They kill good soldiers like Col. Ted Westhusing for profit.

Know your BFEE: America’s Ruling Gangster Class

Poppy Bush brought up JFK Assassination and "Conspiracy Theorists" at Ford Funeral

Know your BFEE: Robert Gates did more than keep the doors open at BCCI

Know your BFEE: The Fellowship ‘Preys’ for America

Sink the BFEE: Foley gives us Congress. Condi sends 'em to prison.

Beat the BFEE: Poppy’s CIA warned about terror plots and did not stop them

Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush

Know your BFEE: Neil Bush hangs out with Russian Mafiya Godfather

Know your BFEE: Poppy Bush was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated.

Know your BFEE: Nazis couldn’t win WWII, so they backed Bushes.

Know your BFEE: At every turn, JFK was opposed by War Party

Know your BFEE: Lies Are the Currency of Their Realm

Know your BFEE: Cheney & Halliburton Sold Iran Nuke Technology

Know your BFEE: The Stench of Moussaoui Permeates the Octopus

Know your BFEE: Moussaoui Must Die for Bush and 'His' Government

Know your BFEE: Alito is just another word for Mussolini

Know your BFEE: Like a NAZI

Know your BFEE: The China-Bush Axis

Know your BFEE: Bush and bin Laden Clans Together in Bed

Know your BFEE: Libby Is the First Big BFEE Turd to Go Down

Know your BFEE: WHIG (White House Iraq Group) made phony case for Iraq War

Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

Know your BFEE: Reinhard Gehlen

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Know your BFEE: Killer Businessmen who put Power and Profit before Country

Know your BFEE: Nixon Threatened to Nuke Vietnam

Know your BFEE: Corrupt Craftsmen Hoover and Dulles

Know your BFEE: Poppy’s CIA Made Saddam Into the Butcher of Baghdad

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Know your BFEE: Sneering Dick Cheney, Superturd-Superrich-Supercrook

Know your BFEE: Bush Lied America into War

Know your BFEE: James R Bath – Bush – bin Laden Link

Know your BFEE: James R Bath - Bush - bin Laden Link

Know your BFEE: War Profiteers

Know your BFEE: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Know your BFEE: Bush and bin Laden Clans Together in Bed

Know your BFEE: Rev. Sun Myung Moon OWNS Poppy Bush

Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik

Know your BFEE: American Children Used in Radiation Experiments

Know your BFEE: Eugenics and the NAZIs - The California Connection

Know your BFEE: The Barreling Bushes

Know your BFEE: A Crime Line of Treason

Know your BFEE: How Smirko Got Rich

Know your BFEE: George W Bush did "community service" at Project P.U.L.L.

Know your BFEE: Vote Suppressor Supreme, the Turd Bill Rehnquist

Know your BFEE: George W Bush Knew 9-11 Was Coming and Did NOTHING!

Know your BFEE: Oliver North, Drug Dealer

Know your BFEE: Pat Robertson Incorporated a Gold Mine with a Terrorist

'Arrogant' CIA Disobeys Orders in Viet Nam

Poppy Bush Involved in JFK Assassination -- BFEE's Spooked!

Vietnam and Iraq Wars Started by Same People

BFEE Turd Daniel Pipes tied to DANISH CARTOONS

JFK Would NEVER Have Fallen for Phony INTEL!

Plame Affair makes clear: USA is run by TRAITORS.

How Cheney Got His SNEER: The Curse of Dick Cheney

Know your BFEE: Dope Dealers & Money Launderers

BFEE Is More than Capable of Bombing Their Own Countrymen

Frank Church and the Abyss of Warrantless Wiretapping.

A fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission

A Short History of Conspiracy Theory

¿ Paraguay? ¡Porque no!

DEA Agents Agree: CIA means Cocaine Importation Agency


Note 1: The subject is a work in progress. The entries are not perfect, nor are they complete. They do provide a framework for a who's-who and what's-what and how we got here. Started for educational and historical purposes, these threads are meant to serve the public interest. What gives them a special quality are the contributions of DUers. May they also serve some prosecutor in the future.

Note 2: As no individual is totally evil or totally good, not all Bushes are evil or beholden to the BFEE. Nor are all those who gain by its existence members of the immediate or extended Bush family. Nor are the Bushes at the pinnacle of global power -- it is quite likely they serve an even wealthier class. What they all have in common is the use of the powers of the government of the United States for accumulating wealth and power for themselves, their associates and the other affiliated beneficiaries among the world's financial elite and authoritarian regimes. Always, they gain at the expense of the people and nations of the world, including the citizens of the United States and its Constitution.

[gratuitous]

6. And who will be the next Cheney?

So much ongoing criminality persists in this country thanks to Republican shenanigans and their proclivity for pardoning their own. When Ford pardoned Nixon back in 1974, it put a stop to a lot of the investigation into Watergate and the prosecution of the criminal activities. Some of the big fish such as John Mitchell were netted, but a number of smaller fish such as Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney slipped through the net.

When George H.W. Bush issued his pardons in Iran/contra in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992, he effectively decapitated the prosecution of such notables as Elliott Abrams, who would one day return to the corridors of power to gift the United States with his own peculiar brand of governance. In the late administration of Bush the Stupider, there were no doubt dozens of miscreants breathing a sigh of relief when the new president announced that he wasn't going to spend Department of Justice time and resources investigating or prosecuting any crimes of his predecessor. Surely some undersecretary for torture and bribery will re-surface to bedevil the country during the next Republican administration (if he hasn't been appointed already by Obama). In a slightly more just world this person would be spending the next quarter century or so behind bars.

[Octafish]

11. Poppy's Pardons Pardoned Himself...and CIA role in a helluvalot of evil.

For instance, this forgotten enchilada:

The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations

[robertpaulsen]

7. I find these developments to be of great concern.

Without getting too :tinfoilhat: I've been paying close attention to the discrepancies in the official account of the OBL raid, wondering why this http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/14/us-pakistan-china-usa-idUSTRE77D2BT20110814">"previously unknown" helicopter crash from the OBL raid is getting an MSM spotlight. I don't think the long term strategy is so much about making Pakistan look bad as much as it is about demonizing China. We're witnessing a http://www.cnbc.com//id/44142438">turning point where the economic endgame is coming into focus. So it's extremely important for the MIC to have their real opponent properly identified and appropriately highlighted by MSM.

This is only the beginning, but we've been on top of this long before. Thanks for the link and for all the work you do to expose the truth, Octafish!

[azul]

8. Whitewashing Reagan's dementia with the film on Charlie Wilson's war.

" But surely the most glaring omission in the film is the fateful trade-off accepted by President Ronald Reagan when he agreed not to complain about Pakistan’s efforts to acquire a nuclear weapons capability in exchange for Pakistani cooperation in helping the Afghan rebels.

On page 463 of his book, Crile characterizes this deal or understanding as “the dirty little secret of the Afghan war” –- General Zia al-Haq’s ability to extract not only “massive aid” from Washington but also to secure Reagan’s acquiescence in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program via a congressional waiver of U.S. nonproliferation laws in December 1981."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/021010b.html


I don't think China had much to do with giving the bomb to Pakistan.

[upi402]

9. AMERICAN JUDAS- wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross

"AMERICAN JUDAS- SELLING THE SECURITY OF AMERICA-30 PIECES OF SILVER"

Nice title, very fitting.

kick

[WinkyDink]

12. Bushco, Cheney, BCCI.....all known about for years/decades on those "tin-foil-hat" websites.

[annabanana]

13. kick. . . . n/t