Some Of The Background Maneouvres - Controversal!

[system0]

this is an email that was sent through work today, i cant say if any of it is true or not though it is though provoking and gives backing to what i believe the real reason our country and the us are going to attack iraq - oil


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

 

[draqon]

i prefer my "thought provoking" articles to contain correct information, not crap.

 

[system0]

i know for a fact that some of this did happen and can be proved as i saw it on a channel 4 documentary some time ago

not everything the goverment tells you is true you know

 

[namegame]

Some true facts - some distorted facts - throw them all together and what do you get?

 

[namedropper]

Well, most political articles like this will be a mixture of solid info, speculation, and finger pointing. That in itself doesn't make the whole thing garbage or perfectly correct either.

I do have to question why the U.S. leadership picks the targets it does over other areas in the world with active terrorists, atrocious governments or active development of weapons of mass destruction. You'd have to be pretty inexperienced in the world to think that it wasn't at least partially due to oil concerns.

But then Osama has been the designated whipping boy for US Presidents for a while now. Whenever the economy dips or there's a scandal, off we go to bomb Iraq.

Not that the bad guys don't necessarily deserve bombing.

Situations like this are usually a lot more complicated than a simple right or wrong.

 

[parwold]

stranger things have been proved to be true