Your attempts to pin everything on Clinton would be cute if they weren't so patently wrong.
Pakistani nuclear scientists were talking about having nuclear capabilities in 1984. American papers were reporting US intelligence analysis of China supplying fully tested nuclear designs from 1984 on. Reagan had been providing billions per year in aide (more than half in the form of weapons) since 81. In 1985 Congress passed a law saying that the President had to certify that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons as a condition of continued aid. In 1987 a Canadian-Pakistani was convicted of trying to sell nuclear centrifuge materials to Pakistan and Reagan had to issue a special Presidential waiver to ignore that fact so that aid could go through. To be fair, Pakistan's nuclear efforts likely started under Carter's watch since India tested their weapon in 1974. But we can be quite sure that it was well and truly under way during the Reagan years. Reagan had reason to largely ignore it however since he needed Pakistan's support for the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan. The "look the other way" attitude about Pakistans nuclear program did finally wane after the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan starting in 88. Bush I stopped the certification and cut off aid in 1990 since they didn't need Pakistan any longer. But by 1992, the Pakistan government admitted publicly that they had all the elements already built for a nuclear bomb. And subsequent statements made it clear that they had everything in place in the 80s. It is true that Pakistan didn't publicly test a weapon until 1998. But they didn't need to, India knew. In the same way that everyone knows about Isreal. They don't need to declare it publicly. Clinton did plenty wrong. I certainly have lots of issues with the dude. But the facts are out there in the public domain. Please avail yourself of them before flinging accusations around. Judah On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Under Clinton's watch, the North Koreans built a nuclear program (even while > they agreed not to). So did the Pakistanis. The Iranians didn't get as far > because of sanctions against them or they would have had a nuke too. The > Libyans were behind the curve, also because of sanctions, or half of the > Middle East and north Africa would have nukes by now. Good thing the > sanctions were in place before Clinton. > > Under Clinton's watch, the Taliban took over Pakistan and helped Al Qaeda > use it as a base to plan the most horrific attack against civilians in U.S. > history. > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Vivec wrote: > >> >> America had good will and stuff around....Kennedy. >> Then it came back with Clinton. >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292930 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
