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 + Posted June 5, 2002
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 +I found this article and thought it is interesting.
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 +ITS THE OIL, STUPID!
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 +Joseph Clifford
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 +Media Monitors Network Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA
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 +*The Russians got into their Vietnam right after we got out of ours? Isn't that strange?
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 +*We supported Bin Laden and the Taliban for years, and viewed them as freedom fighters against the Russians? Isn't that strange?
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 +*As late as 1998 the US was paying the salary of every single Taliban official in Afghanistan? Isn't that strange?
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 +*There is more oil and gas in the Caspian Sea area than in Saudi Arabia, but you need a pipeline through Afghanistan to get the oil out. Isn't that strange?
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 +*UNOCAL, a giant American Oil conglomerate, wanted to build a 1000 mile long pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. Isn't that strange?
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 +*UNOCAL spent $10,000,000,000 on geological surveys for pipeline construction, and very nicely courted the Taliban for their support in
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 +allowing the construction to begin.
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 +Isn't that strange?
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 +*All of the leading Taliban officials were in Texas negotiating with UNOCAL
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 +in 1998.Isn't that strange?
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 +*1998-1999 the Taliban changed its mind and threw UNOCAL out of the country and awarded the pipeline project to a company from Argentina. Isn't that strange?
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 +*John Maresca VP of UNOCAL testified before Congress, and said no pipeline until the Taliban was gone and a more friendly government was established.
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 +Isn't that strange?
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 +*1999-2000 The Taliban became the most evil people in the world. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan
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 +would go ahead by the middle of October. Isn't that strange?
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 +*9/11 WTC disaster.
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 +Bush goes to war against Afghanistan even though none of the hijackers came
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 +from Afghanistan. Isn't that strange?
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 +Bush blamed Bin Laden but has never offered any proof saying it's a "secret". Isn't that strange?
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 +*Taliban offered to negotiate to turn over Bin Laden if we showed them some proof. We refused, and we bombed them. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Bush said: "This is not about nation building. It's about getting the terrorists".
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 +Isn't that strange?
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 +*We have a new government in Afghanistan. Isn't that strange?
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 +*The leader of that government formerly worked for UNOCAL. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Bush appoints a special envoy to represent the US to deal with that new government, who formerly was the "chief consultant to UNOCAL". Isn't that
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 +strange?
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 +*The Bush family acquired their wealth through oil? Isn't that strange?
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 +*Bush's Secretary of Interior was the President of an oil company before going to Washington. Isn't that strange?
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 +*George Bush Sr. now works with the "Carlysle Group" specializing in huge
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 +oil investments around the world. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Condoleezza Rice worked for Chevron before gong to Washington. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Chevron named one of its newest "supertankers" After Condoleezza. Isn't that strange?
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 +*Dick Cheney worked for the giant oil conglomerate Haliburton before
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 +becoming VP.
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 +Isn't that strange?
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 +*Haliburton gave Cheney $34,000,000,000 as a farewell gift when he left Haliburton.
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 +Isn't that strange?
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 +*Haliburton is in the pipeline construction business. Isn't that strange?
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 +*There is $6 Trillion dollars worth of oil in the Caspian Sea area. Isn't that strange?
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 +*The US government quietly announces Jan 31, 2002 we will support the construction of the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. Isn't that strange?
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 +*President Musharraf (Pakistan), and Karrzai, (Afghanistan-Unocal) announce agreement to build proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan (Irish Times 02/10/02). Isn't that strange?
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 +It's the Oil, Stupid!"