George Bush and A.Q. Kahn: North Korea's Nuclear Connection 
Indeed, Bush, through his continued embrace with nuclear dictator Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, has done more to compromise US National Security than practically any other entity on Earth.
When Bush & Co. allowed Osama Bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora, Osama scurried off to the Pakistani tribal lands -- a place he knew would be safe since Musharraf refused to enter, or allow others (i.e. the U.S.) to enter those tribal areas. Harboring public enemy #1 should be reason enough for the U.S. to blacklist Pakistan, but not for George "Dead or Alive" Bush. Months later, Bush, in an egregious act of appeasement, was allegedly able to 'cut a deal' with the dictator that allowed U.S. forces in those areas (more on that below the fold).
Pakistani Scientist, and "Father of Pakistani Nukes", A. Q. Khan admitted on national television in 2004 that he had passed atomic secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya. And, he transferred nearly two-dozen centrifuges to North Korea.
Shortly thereafter, Greg Palast reminded the world that Bush spiked a probe of Pakistan's A.Q. Kahn. Had the Bush administration done their job back then, North Korea might not now be in a position to declare nuclear capabilities. According to Palast:
"On November 7, 2001, BBC TV and the Guardian of London reported that the Bush administration thwarted investigations of Dr. A.Q. Khan who this week confessed selling atomic secrets to Libya, North Korea, and Iran. The Bush Administration has expressed shock at the disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British News Team's sources', Bush did not know of these facts because, shortly after his inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) defectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories. CIA and other agents could not investigate the spread of 'Islamic Bombs' through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia... According to both sources and documents obtained by the BBC, the Bush Administration 'Spike' of the investigation of Dr. Khan's Lab followed from a wider policy of protecting key Saudi Arabians including the bin Laden Family."
Once again showing favoritism to a nuclear dictatorship, the Bush administration gave a pass to the defiant Musharaff.
"Pakistan's President has vowed never to allow the UN nuclear inspections agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, into the country despite admitting that the man behind its nuclear weapons program sold nuclear know-how and equipment to three (sic) of President Bush's so-called axis of evil states - Libya, Iran and North Korea. President Pervez Musharaff yesterday pardoned the scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man credited with giving Pakistan a nuclear capability to mirror that of India's. And in a robust note of defiance, the military dictator rejected any suggestion of independent monitoring of Pakistan's nuclear program. 'This is a sovereign country. No document will be given. No independent investigation will take place here.'"
The Bush Administration then entered into a deal with Musharraff where Washington would 'look the other way' regarding the despot's pardon of nuclear secret purveyor A.Q. Kahn in return for unfettered access as the U.S. hunts for Osama bin Laden in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan. But there's more to the story than that...
Seymour Hersh: "A Bush Administration intelligence officer with years of experience in nonproliferation issues told me last month, 'One thing we do know is that this was not a rogue operation. Suppose Edward Teller had suddenly decided to spread nuclear technology and equipment around the world. Do you really think he could do that without the government knowing? How do you get missiles from North Korea to Pakistan? Do you think A.Q. [Kahn] shipped all the centrifuges by Federal Express? The military has to be involved, at high levels... We had every opportunity to put a stop to the A. Q. Khan network fifteen years ago. Some of those involved today in the smuggling are the children of those we knew about in the eighties. It's the second generation now.' In public, the Bush Administration accepted the pardon at face value. Within hours of Musharraf's television appearance, Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, praised him as 'the right man at the right time.'"
Bush is the master of his fate -- primarily responsible for the many atrocities that take place under his authority. Point fingers all you like. Bush is the steward of these dark times and the creator of yet darker times.
Contrary to being it's protector, George Bush and the Republicans have proven time and again that they are, without doubt, the greatest threat to America's security since the fall of the Axis powers.
KEYWORDS: George W. Bush, A.Q. Kahn, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Republicans, National Security, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, Tora Bora
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