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Welcome to Orwell's world 2010 : Comments

By John Pilger, published 15/1/2010

Only the terminally gormless remain true to the Obama brand of 'world peace'.

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Washington initially considered the Taliban as business partners in any pipeline and Unocal invited Taliban representatives to Texas for negotiations in 1997.

As well as Unocal, Enron was negotiating with Haliburton to build the pipeline.
The Taliban was demanding US aid to rebuild Afghan infrastructure and as well as being a transit line to India and beyond, they insisted any pipeline was also to serve Afghan requirements.

Washington rejected the demands and in July 2001 (allegedly) told the Taliban leaders "either you accept out offer on a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs".

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/08/ltm.05.html
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK20Ag01.html

Whatever the truth may be, it was not simply to capture Bin Laden or bring democracy to that country. It's a strategy to secure and control the energy requirements of the USA (and beyond). If you can't control the oil, you can at least control the distribution and that's what's been behind Iraq and even the fracas in Georgia a few years ago.
Posted by rache, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:37:56 AM
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Thanks rache for the links.USA to Afghanistan," You can have a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs."It is Wall St and the US Federal Reserve who control Govt in the USA.Will a few good men and women stand up to them,or let evil prevail?
Posted by Arjay, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 6:10:35 PM
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