I don't think anyone on the left should be posting any blurbs at all on this story. It's a bit embarrassing. We can't condemn the administration for accepting as fact and reacting to what was ostensibly an overwhelming amount of intelligence about the dangers of pre-war Iraq and then get outraged over a picture taken by ABC.

We all know the attack on the USA is coming. The problem is the news media is anti-USA and we have no national effort to defeat the enemy. All the news we see from the mainstream media is when we are defeated by a bomb attack or our government sucks or our leaders are stupid. If we were to take out the threatening nukes, the media would screech as would the lib Dems. I wonder if the first nuke will hit a media outlet like ABC - would that not be ironic?

Someday Pakistan has to pay itself for its self distructive plans

@ Think Tank
1 Dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of moral heroism
In WWII Japan and Germany initiated force against America and the Free World, the allied forces retaliated
America forced Japan and Germany to surrender unconditionally and thus put a stop to Japanese imperialism and Nazism
There’s no moral equivalency between the initiator of force and someone who retaliates
2 The issue with respect to WMD is who’s having them. I.e. what’s the character of the rulers of countries with WMD? Would you have a problem with policemen having firearms, or would you just try to keep them out of the hands of criminals?
3 The Vietnam war wasn’t started by the US. There’s a long history involving France, China, Nationalists and Communist from the North. For details see http://www.rtvnh.nl/nieuws/index.asp?newsid=73506
4 Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a dictatorship and as such held no legitimate claim to sovereignty. There’s no right to impose or maintain a dictatorship. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and tried to kill George Bush the elder. After the first war a cease-fire agreement was negotiated, which Saddam violated time and again by targeting American and British planes and not giving full disclosure about his WMD-program. Saddam could have prevented war by sticking to the conditions of the cease-fire agreement. He didn’t want to. 1 Million innocent? Next bidder please! Who’s deliberately killing innocent people in Iraq BTW? The US, or al Qaeda, Sunni and Shia militias, with compliments of Syria and Iran?
5 What makes Israel illegal? Is it being the only constitutional republic with representative government in the Middle East? The rationale for any state is the protection of the individual rights of its citizens. Israel may not be perfect (nor any other western state for that matter), but is does a much better job than any of its neighbors.
6 I have no problem with helping India, but we shouldn’t be helping Pakistan. As for Iran not attacking any nation for 150 years: the Islamic Republic of Iran started by attacking America in 1979. Since then Iran has initiated force against many people by waging proxy-wars and acts of terrorism. Iran is the main supporter of Hezbollah, Hamas, Shia and Sunni militias in Iraq and, so it seems, even the Taliban.
Taking the requirements of man’s life as moral standard, the West is right (though not perfect), Islamists, Nationalists, Communists and other collectivists are wrong. Nowadays don’t be biased often means: don’t be judgmental. Don’t even judge by rational standards. Man survives by reason. Therefore one must judge.

Pakistan should have been invaded at the same time as Afghanistan...

Sorry Think Tank,

My comments are meant for Truth

The Neocons need to come up with a better excuse for W.'s inaction than that he was too busy invading the wrong country to deal with Pakistan. They already tried that one to explain his failure to get Bin Laden, not to mention his allowing N. Korea to get nukes. Maybe the next president will do something to prevent WMDs from falling into the hands of terrorists.

If USA wouldn't have attached Nuclear Weapon on Japan. Japan/Germany would have attached USA/London/India/China/Russia. By this time only two country would rule the entire world(Japan would rule entire asia) and Germany would rule Europe/America). During the second world war everyone is trying to develop nuclear weapon. America developed first and they used first to stop the war.
2. If USA wouldn't have fight with IRAQ there would be any kuwait country
3. We can't say Israel is illegal country. All the jews have been killed by Germany they wanted separte state to live. If isarael is illegal then pakistan and bangaldesh also ilegal.
4. IRAN has a bad history of attacking nations. They had two wars against IRAQ. If they developed nuclear weapon then if they can easily attack any country in Europe and threaten with Nuclear weapon. Check the words from IRAN president and their idealogy. They always say holy war , nothing else.

We can't simply blame a country . Check the history and find out the cause.

Are nuclear weapons defensive? Using them is definitely offensive. Of course Islam is respected as a religion. But I don't, and never will, respect the godless criminals who perpetrate in the name of the most high. Pakistan is not a friend of the West. They say one thing and do another.

babu, you're an idiot...Germany had already been defeated when the US dropped the bomb on Japan...Japan had essentially been defeated as well as she was no longer a military power capable of taking the fight to the shores of its enemies...

the choice between dropping the bomb and not dropping the bomb was not one of winning or losing that war, it was a decision to spare the thousands of lives it would have cost in US troops to invade Japan in order to force their government to capitulate...

the US and its allies defeated both Germany and Japan w/o using nukes, and could have forced Japan's surrender w/o their use also...now, you go "check the history" and think before you spout off again...

Any bets on how long it takes for Pak to put some of this plutonium into the hands of the Taliban (which Pakistan created, funded, armed, trained and now shelters) or al qaeda (which Pakistan now shelters)? Curious how the only three nations to refuse to sign the NPT are all American allies, and can have all the nukes they can build.

I give it a week or two at most before this somehow becomes a headline involving Iran.
This is just part of the set up.

I am a person who would not be alive if the bomb had not been dropped in Japan. My father was trained as a replacement platoon leader for the invasion of Japan.

Dropping the bombs saved many Japanese lives as well. The conventional firebombing of Japanese cities killed far more people than the nuclear bombs did.

The Germans did not stop fighting until their territory was overrun. The Japanese were far more fanatical than the Germans, there is no reason to believe they would have suddenly stopped fighting without the bombs.

Gotcha...Quick...get down...I think I just saw a black helicopter...they're after you man...your on to them...and they know it...just keep your aluminum foil hat on and the mothership will protect you.

Pakistani nuclear weapons have been called "Islamic Nuclear Bombs" by the Pakistani fundamentalist. Pakistan will be a nation with an Islamist government in not too distant a future posing a serious threat to Israel and India. The time to address this threat may have already passed. Now, I am afraid, its time to appease Pakistan as the American government is doing.

When will the Bush administration stop trying to be right after huge lies from recent past problems involving intelligence data? Why doesn't the human rights advocates begin investigating the CIA regarding people used to gather this specific type of intelligence and its location? As first hand witness I can say easily how information is twisted and turned into what the white house can't even pull out of their own emails... Gee... how much longer will Bush bully the world?

Nuclear weapons are 1940's technology. This murderous technology is out of our control. Pakistan can morph into another Iran in weeks. It was scientist from Pakistan than spread nuclear technology to Iran in the first place. Islam seems to unite these nations against us. Terrorist are training in Pakistan and Bush is powerless to intervene without handing Pakistan over to Ben Laden. Bush as shown he can't control our boarders. Rant all you want about liberals. When 12 million people and tons of drugs can enter the US illegally it's just a matter of time before we are targeted here in the USA. The economic law called opportunity costs implies that money thrown by conservatives down a rat hole called Iraq can't be resserected and reapplied to making American secure from within. You have witnessed watch great things growing government by adding the Department of Homeland Security has done to improve the federal government reacting to various calamities.

Every soveriegn nation has a right to defend itself, as we do here in the U.S. The only difference is, Pakistan is always facing the danger of becomming a rouge Islamic state. there is a slippery slope when deciding who has the right to build these weapons...there are MANY factors to consider - Radical takeover, Proliferation, etc.

Lets not be so quick to say we ALL have the right to build these weapons. As far as Bush is concerned, he is like a child and only looks at the short term implications of his actions, not the long term and what our children have to live through!!

For windrider

Maybe you should get your facts straight. if you might remember, it was the US who funded and trained Taliban to fight the communist threat of the Soviet Union not Pakistan.

So the United States has the right to develop nuclear technology to "protect" itself from evil, but other countries dont. United Stated should just stop try to be the international police. why dont we focus on more serious issues that are going around in the world rather than waste so much time and money in a country where nothing has been accomplished. Why do we step into another country claiming to "liberate" them but instead kill thousands of innocent civilians? What kind of liberation is that?

North Korea is a ticking time bomb. Why dont we take an action there?

And whoever said we should have invaded Pakistan with Afghanistan.........

That would have just served as an inventation for the extremists to attack the US again. What have we accomplished in Afghanistan. Has Bin Laden been found? Last time i checked.. NOPE he hasnt. so then what would have we gained by invading Pakistan.Nothing but trouble.......

Just to clarify, my post is under "Mike Johnson" NOT my name (which I assume is Mike johnson's) ABCNEWS.COM - you need to fix that bug!!