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Welcome to Orwell's world 2010 : Comments
By John Pilger, published 15/1/2010Only the terminally gormless remain true to the Obama brand of 'world peace'.
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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.