Ron Paul Hearing on Afghanistan 10/15/09-- Why Are We Occupying Other Countries?

[Drednots]

Exactly. In 2001 we built natural gas and oil infrastructure and that's what we protect. Nothing else. We don't care about those people. If we did we would have saved millions of people in African countries who are slaughtered every year from tribal wars and warlords. But in Africa there is no oil or natural resources to steal and protect.

[greatbroad]

Congress is too embarrassed to admit the reason we are there: OIL

The U.S. wants to protect the pipeline that goes thru Afganistan. It isn't about democracy or freedom or our safety: we are doing the job for Exxon, one of the richest companies in world.

Let Exxon pay their private armies and let the American taxpayer recover financially.