Isn't That Strange! An American perspective..... 

(That Strange American Perspective?)

JOSEPH CLIFFORD /  Media Monitors Network (MMN) 7aug02

Did you know that... we supported Bin Laden and the Taliban in every way 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.

Senior American officials in mid-July of 2001 told Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.

9/11 WTC disaster...

The Bush administration goes to war against Afghanistani Taliban 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".

The Bush family acquired their wealth through oil?

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, 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. strange?

The US government quietly announces Jan 31, 2002 we will support the construction of the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.

President Musharref (Pakistan), and Karrzai, (Afghanistan...ex-Unocal) announce agreement to build the proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. --- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

-- Robert F. Kennedy --- "Why, of course the people don't want war.... But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

-- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War I