[SOC] Fwd: It is very Strange, isn't it?

[Lloyd Lachow]

Fwd: It is very Strange, isn't it?
>
>For your consideration.
>RJF
>
>
>Subject: IT'S THE OIL,STUPID
>
>  "It is the Oil, Stupid!"
>by Joseph Clifford
>Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed above article to 
Media
>Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island,
>
>US supported Bin Laden and the Talibans for years,
>and viewed them as freedom fighters against the 
Russians?
>Isn't that strange?
>
>As late as 1998 the US was paying the salary of
>every single Taliban's official in Afghanistan?
>Isn't that strange?
>
>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?
>
>UNOCAL, a giant American Oil conglomerate, wanted to
>build a 1,000 mile long pipeline from the Caspian Sea
>through Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>UNOCAL spent $10,000,000,000 on geological surveys
>for pipeline construction, and very nicely courted 
the Talibans for
>their support in allowing the construction to begin.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>All of the leading Taliban officials were in Texas
>negotiating with UNOCAL in 1998.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>1998-1999 the Talibans changed its mind and threw
>UNOCAL out of the country and awarded the pipeline
>project to a company from Argentina.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>John Maresca, VP of UNOCAL testified before Congress
>and said no pipeline until the Taliban was gone and a
>more friendly government was established.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>1999-2000 The Talibans became the most evil people
>in the world.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was
>told by senior American officials in mid-July (2000)
>that military action against Afghanistan would go 
ahead
>by the middle of October (2000).
>Isn't that strange?
>
>9/11 WTC disaster.
>
>Bush goes to war against Afghanistan even though
>none of the hijackers came from Afghanistan.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Bush blamed Bin Laden but has never offered any
>proof saying it's a "secret".
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Talibans offered to negotiate to turn over Bin Laden
>if we showed them some proof. We refused; we bombed.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Bush said: "This is not about nation building. It's
>about getting the terrorists."
>Isn't that strange?
>
>We have a new government in Afghanistan.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>The leader of that government formerly worked for
>UNOCAL (Hamid Karzai).
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Bush appoints a special envoy to represent the US to
>deal with that new government, who formerly was the
>"chief consultant to UNOCAL" (LakhdarIbrahimi).
>Isn't that strange?
>
>The Bush family acquired their wealth through oil?
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Bush's Secretary of Interior was the President of an
>oil company before going to Washington.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>  George Bush Sr. (Father) now works with the
>"Carlysle Group" specializing
>in huge oil investments around the world.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Condoleezza Rice worked for Chevron before gong to
>Washington.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Chevron named one of its newest "supertankers" after
>Condoleezza.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>Dick Cheney worked for the giant oil conglomerate
>Haliburton before becoming VP of USA.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>* Haliburton gave Cheney $34,000,000 as a farewell
>gift when he left Haliburton.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>* Haliburton is in the pipeline construction 
business.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>There is $6 Trillion dollars worth of oil in the
>Caspian Sea area.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>  The US government quietly announces Jan 31, 2002 we
>will support the construction of the 
Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.
>Isn't that strange?
>
>President Musharref (Pakistan), and Karzai,
>(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?
>
>"It's the Oil, Stupid!"
>(And all the while we were told it was about 
terrorism
>and freedom)
>
>Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed above article to 
Media
>Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island


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