we found oil
Originally Posted by BigLouie
and if anybody believes our invasion of afghanistan and irag had anything to do with anything other than oil...you're a fucking moron. the neocons and oil companies had laid out maps of the irag oil fields years before the war and the oil companies were slobbering all over themselves waiting to get at it. same with afghanistan. the bush admin was negotiating with...you guessed it, the taliban and flat out told them 'you can have a carpet of gold, or a carpet of bombs'. when the taliban chose a brazilian oil company to build the pipeline to get the landlocked oil from the caspian sea basin to karachi, their fate was sealed.
and saddam hussein's fate was sealed when he decided to trade his country's oil in euros instead of US dollars. and the US 'allowed' his execution to keep him from trial, where he may have disclosed the many secrets the US govt didn't want to be disclosed.
never been a dictator the US govt didn't like as long as they helped our 'national interest'. hell the US govt helped depose the ruling monarchy of the independent island nation of hawaii at the behest of US corporations. geez just look at some of the brutal dictators we support all over the world. and gerald ford and henry kissinger gave tacit approval to what the suharto regime in indonesia did to east timor... that should make all americans ashamed of what their govt did in our good name. and the beat goes on. and that was all about oil too. the east timor straight is full of oil and natural gas.
why has the US govt and CIA been trying to get rid of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela? Maybe because Venezuela has the 4th largest known oil reserves in the world and the US gets more oil from that country than even Saudia Arabia. maybe just a coincidence. but maybe because Chavez had tried to increase taxes on oil companies to distribute the money to peasants so they can own their own land. oil corporations don't like that kind of shit. fucks up their profit margins.
and let's not forget the CIA's assasination of Salvador Allende, giving rise to the murderous and corrupt regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
and biglouie is right...daddy bush was in a meeting with the bin laden famlly on 9/11..and they were allowed to fly out of the country while air space was locked down for everybody else. and the bush family had billions of business interests with them. the FBI was furious that they were not allowed to interview members of the family.
and have you heard of the Five Dancing Israeli's ?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHART...eisraelis.html
there is way more here than the grassy knoll.