Both President Bush, in his foreign policy debate with challenger Kerry, and Vice President Cheney, in his single debate with challenger Edwards, made the claim that the network of A.Q. Khan has been brought to justice.
Justice my bottom! A.Q. Khan was pardoned by President Pervez Musharraf, who also refuses to allow the I.A.E.A. (International Atomic Energy Association) to question him. At last count A.Q. Khan was living among his five villas.
Abdul Qadeer Khan sold nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran, and Libya. His network, therefore, was single-handedly responsible for America's largest security threat since the cold war.
I doubt a single person George Bush refused to pardon from the death penalty while governor of Texas was anywhere near this kind of threat to American society. In fact I'd wager all of them together weren't.
A lot of phrases come to mind when I think about A.Q. Khan's treatment, but "brought to justice" isn't among them.
I can't imagine why both President Bush and VP Cheney would bring that up. Surely the press will call them on that. Won't they?
Speaking of people "brought to justice", how about Chalabi? Didn't he feed us bad intelligence about WMD and hand secrets to the Iranian government?
And how about Mullah Omar? Wasn't he the leader of the Talliban? Where's he?
And how about Osama? Isn't he a spoke in the wheel of evil?
And how about the Anthrax-scare perpetrator?
If you think about it, there are an awful lot of people that WEREN'T brought to justice on George W. Bush's watch.
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