IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL bumpersticker

When did afghanistan become a major oil producing state?

Wrong war, try a

Its all about the WTC

bumper sticker instead.

Sorry hippie boy,

but ignorance is NOT bliss.

I was once a hippy. Now I love the solace of harvest, the stream of infromation, my nation, my gun, my Family, Freedom to roam, my home, my country, my Friends and liberty sweet as nectar of honeysuckle.
I am American for 350 years and farther back in my blood. I am whitey but I was also here before whitey. I dont hate myself. As long as just my road lays in front of me I am at rest with others demons. Change my path, scar my heart, feel the heat. Peace all.

Conspiracy?....

Suppose you were making a lot of money in the Oil business, specifically buying oil cheaply and reselling it to Americans in the many forms that Americans consume oil. Gasoline of course but also there are over 500,000 known other uses of oil: Fertilizers (farms/food supply), medicines, plastics, insulation, computers, asphalt, inks & toners, paints, glues, solvents, antiseptics, golf balls, CDs, trash bags, nail polish, detergents, chewing gum, etc.

Suppose you knew that your current sources of cheap oil were drying up and you knew where the next and probably last large oil reserve was (Kazakhstan) and had already invested very heavily in that exploration but in order for this oil to remain cheap and exploitable it has to be piped through Afghanistan. And the ruling government refused to allow
you your pipeline.

Suppose you were an unpopular President needing to boost the economy. Needing to protect the Nations oil supplies. But you also wouldn't mind having more power over the citizenry, and wanted to erode civil liberties. Suppose you believed that the best way to boost the economy was by pumping money into the largest corporations in the world. And by pumping money into the military, defense contractors and weapons
manufacturers, after all these are the very ones that helped pay my way into office. Suppose you believed that you needed a war to accomplish all of these things at once, what would the main obstacle be? Why the people of the country could never stand for a war for economic reasons! They would clearly see that the government is bought and paid for by campaign contributions. Suppose you also wanted to teach the Taliban a lesson for threatening to kill christian woman! The people still wouldn't support a war over that.

What would it take for the whole country to get behind a war against Afghanistan? What if we could get them to attack us first? Well so it would be hard to get them to do that, but we would need an attack on US soil to get the kind of support that would carry the war effort. Suppose we could get those terrorist that hate us so much to attack us? Or suppose we knew they were going to and just let them. Then we could attack Afghanistan claiming that we were attacking the terrorist that they harbored. This would accomplish all that this president needed.

We can now continue with our plans to pipe oil through the new government that we install there. We get a boost in the economy. The president becomes popular as the war would be popular "Protecting US interests and All". We can easily pass new laws giving hugh amounts of money to the very people that put me into office as an economic stimulus
package, and increased military spending, and by consuming arms we'll of course need new ones to replace those. New laws giving hugh un-heard of powers to police agencies.

How else could we protect these interests and maintain public, worldwide support?

Who would offer the most support for this? Look at the map. If oil is piped through Afghanistan, it has to also go through Pakistan, and to a major port there (Karachi), undoubtedly increasing Pakistan's wealth. Pakistan is a big supporter of the White Oil Pipeline Project. Which is
also supported largely by Britain's Shell Oil Company. And Britain seems to be very big supporter.

Now the president wants the power to keep his records and those of his father and all other presidents private forever. Overruling the current 12 year privacy rule.


Proof?...

http://www.runningonempty.org/oilcrash.htm
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/2001/0211.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html
http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/18/ebr9.htm
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11839
http://www.opensecrets.org/payback/issue.asp?issueid=EC1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,586470,00.html
http://www.opensecrets.org/payback/index.asp
http://www.indybay.org/2001/11/108862.php
http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
http://www.indiaabroadonline.com/PublicAccess/ia-10132000/Economy/Pakistanfuel.html



What if the bad guys really were working with the cia, in order to incite a wanted war, for the final evolution of a dying oil economy.

Would we be able to tell?

Gee, what does the region around Afghanistan have to do with oil? ATTENTION IGNORANT PATRIOTS: YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE YOUR FUCKING HEAD STUCK IN THE FUCKING SAND TO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS REGION HAS TO DO WITH OIL.

period.

It's not about Afghanistan's oil, it's about the oil located in the Caspian region. Unocol and other oil companies want to run a pipeline through Western Afghanistan, but they testified before congress in 1998 that they couldn't do it unless the Taliban was deposed. Remember Unocol, the oil company which used slave labor in Burma to build their pipeline? So, as usual we get a war in the Middle East when the oilmen get into power. If we had a president which rose to prominence through say diamond money, we'd probably have a war in Africa by now.