"All war is based on deception", Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
"War is a Racket", General Smedley Butler.
For those who contend that Bush and the neocon horde didn't know 9i/11 was about to happen ...
From the 1998 Congressional Record.
STATEMENT OF JOHN J. MARESCA, VICE PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNOCAL CORPORATION
I would like to focus today on three issues. First, the need for multiple pipeline routes for Central Asian oil and gas resources. Second, the need for U.S. support for international and regional efforts to achieve balanced and lasting political settlements to the conflicts in the region, including Afghanistan. Third, the need for structured assistance to encourage economic reforms and the development of appropriate investment climates in the region. In this regard, we specifically support repeal or removal of section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.
One major problem has yet to be resolved: how to get the region's vast energy resources to the markets where they are needed. Central Asia is isolated. Their natural resources are land locked, both geographically and politically. Each of the countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia faces difficult political challenges. Some have unsettled wars or latent conflicts. Others have evolving systems where the laws and even the courts are dynamic and changing. In addition, a chief technical obstacle which we in the industry face in transporting oil is the region's existing pipeline infrastructure.
One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company.
As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.
Project for a New American Century Letter to President Clinton
On January 26, 1998, the PNAC, sent a letter to President William Clinton urging the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The dictator, the letter alleged, was a destabilizing force in the Middle East, and posed a mortal threat to "...the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world's oil supply..." The subjugation of Iraq would be the first application of "pre-emptive war."
President Clinton did not honor the PNAC's request.
Letter to President Clinton on Iraq
According to PNAC, what was needed to build the pipeline and invade Iraq was
“some catastrophic and catalysing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
Why Another Defense Review
Hell to Pay
Sentient Times June/July 2002 issue
On a frigid, rainy January day in 2001, Unocal was given reason to rejoice. George W. Bush had just taken the oath of office, and was now President of the United States. The power of the American government was immediately brought to bear in the situation. Enter Afghan-American Zalmay Khalilzad, who in the early 1990s served Unocal as an advisor on the nascent pipeline project. In 1997, Khalilzad was present with Unocal representatives when they hosted a delegation of Taliban officials in Houston.
NOTE: This meeting was hosted by Ken Lay who gave millions to the the Taliban.
Khalilzad was part of a full-court press by the Bush administration to see the pipeline deal through to completion. Their main objective was to bring the Taliban, who had become decidedly disinterested in then project, back on board. The American pitch to the Taliban, which was still hosting Osama bin Laden, became so intense that the Taliban hired an American public relations expert named Laila Helms to broker negotiations. High-level meetings between the Bush administration and the Taliban continued through August of 2001, with little gain. The Taliban simply was not interested in becoming part of the deal.
Pakistani news agencies reported in the weeks before September 11th that America had threatened war against the Taliban if they did not agree to the pipeline deal. “Accept our carpet of gold,” the Bush administration is reported to have said, “or be buried under a carpet of bombs.”
At the same time, John O’Neill was quitting his job in protest. A Deputy Director of the FBI, O’Neill was America’s chief bin Laden hunter. He had been in charge of the investigations into the bin Laden-connected bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, the destruction of an American troop barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the African embassy bombings in 1998, and the attack upon the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. Simply put, no one person in America’s counter-terrorism apparatus knew more about Osama bin Laden than John O’Neill.
Two weeks before September 11th, John O’Neill left the FBI in anger and disgust. He believed his government was actively hindering his ability to pursue dangerous Islamic terrorists because such investigations were discomforting Mideast regimes like the Taliban that were being courted by American petroleum interests. Brisard and Dasique quote O’Neill as saying, “The main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.” Connections between the Taliban and Saudi Arabia, a nation bin Laden and a dozen of the 9/11 hijackers once called home, are too glaring to ignore.
Does anone remember the secret meetings that Cheney held with Oil executives, the substance of which he would not reveal to the American public?
US Invasion of Afghanistan was announced months before 9/11
The US Invasion of Afghanistan was Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks
QUESTION: At this point, before 9/11 ..
WHAT REASON DO THEY HAVE TO ATTACK AFGHANISTAN?
Bush given Afghanistan invasion plans two days before 9/11
US PREPARING FOR A WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN BEFORE 9/11, INCREASING CONTROL OF ASIA BEFORE AND SINCE
Sandy Berger, Clinton's National Security Advisor, has stated, "You show me one reporter, one commentator, one member of Congress who thought we should invade Afghanistan before September 11 and I'll buy you dinner in the best restaurant in New York City." [The Cell, John Miller, Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, 8/02, p. 219] In July 2002, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will state: "To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11." [London Times, 7/17/02] How did Bush expect to get public support for his plan to invade and conquer Afghanistan if 9/11 didn't happen
October 7, 2001, Bush announces opening of attacks against Afghanistan
CNN.com - Bush announces opening of attacks - October 7, 2001
Former Unocal Consultant Karzai elected new Afghan leader
BBC NEWS * World * South Asia * Karzai elected Afghan leader
Imagine that?
John J. Maresca, the Vice President of the Unocal Corporation who had implored Congress to have the Taliban overthrown is installed as the first US Envoy to Afghanistan
Imagine that?
September 20, 2001: PNAC Think Tank Pushes for Iraq War
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), publishes a letter addressed to President Bush, insisting that the war on terrorism include as one of its objectives the removal of Saddam Hussein from power— “even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack.”
Letter to President Bush on the War on Terrorism
December 27, 2002, Afghanistan pipeline deal signed
BBC NEWS * South Asia * Central Asia pipeline deal signed
Imagine that?
Feel free to draw whatever conclusions you choose, but some of us have loved ones stuck in the hell of Iraq, and some of us have endured the nightmares of having your daughter stuck in that hell for 3 tours of duty.
I don't give a fuck about silly-ass namecalling, tinfoil hats, moonbeam, UFO, or whatever else name some blind fool might call me .. most of whom are the very same fools who backed this goddamn war in the first place and were just so damn sure that Saddam had WMD.
To suggest that serious questions shouldn't be raised and a serious investigation shouldn't take place with thousands of unanswered questions and the reality that hundreds of thousands of dead bodies, both American and foreign .. a great many of them women, children and babies, lay strewn in the wake of 9/11, is simply ignorant.
Nearly a TRILLION DOLLARS is gone from the US Treasury .. and more than 9 BILLION DOLLARS was just lost, missing, oooppps from Iraq that no one is being held accountable for.
Our military is BROKEN and thousands of US troops are suffering from traumatic brain damage caused by exploding IED's .. and the fucking Veterans' Administration is a joke. Thousands more are suffering from PTSD, AND DU contamination .. and what do they have to look forward to coming home .. more than 25% of all homeless Americans are veterans.
America has suffered tremendous damage to our status, stature, credibility, power, and influence all over the world, and the world is reacting to protect itself FROM US. The Russians and Chinese are starting to look like the good guys .. even to what used to be our friends, like the british.
This is an amazing view into the minds of Americans. Absolutely incredible. In the land of democracy where the vote is THE most important tool of the people to select its leaders and chart the course of their nation, the fraud of the American vote and the mechanism used for that fraud has been conclusively proven .. but hasn't been adequately addresses in more than 4 years .. and the American people do nothing.
Our "leaders" and our course are chosen for us, and the American people do nothing.
The puppetmasters are so bold that they can PUBLISH a blueprint of their plans on the internet because they know the American people will do nothing. They'll watch them quibble and quack about political candidates and political partys like children, when they know the only vote that counts is theirs.
There is a great difference between the reponsibilities of being a citizen than there is of being a fucking subject to the Crown .. and the Declaration of Independence will tell you what the fuck those differences are.
The problem with America is not George Bush, republicans, democrats, or the goddamn neocons. The problem with America is Americans.
We exist in the Matrix