Afganistan is about an Oil Pipelline

Journalist Eric Margolis on the potential for war between US and Pakistan.

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[mudshark9z]

Thanks for interviewing Eric on the 'forgotten' war, and what it's really about. *****

[CyberneticProphet]

excellent interview

[abuhamza1970]

There is more Oil/Gas under the Caspian sea than there is under the whole Arabian peninsula. In '85, Rajiv Gandhi started a program to make India the largest computer literate nation. There is now a massive burgeoning professional middle-class in India based on the IT economy. These mid classes demand material consumer goods incl cars the ultimate mobile status symbol. Cars need petrol and a deal was made that US will supply oil to India based from the Caspian sea, but need a pipeline to India

[abuhamza1970]

Oil, Gas, Blood, it matters not. There is no proof that OBL was responsible for 911. The FBI/CIA are not after him for that. In July '01 an offer was made for the TAPI pipeline (Turmenstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) to the Taliban by UnoCal - fronted by Bechtel of who a consultant was a one Hamid Karzai.The offer from the state dept was that "we will shower you with gold or shower you with bombs." The Taliban chose the Argentinian offer and 3 weeks later 911 happened. Go figure

[leotakesleo]

oh btw....margolis said pashtuns are the largest tribe in the world...he is wrong...after chinese the largest genetic makeup is of anglos....:)...around 250-300 million anglos spread across the world...most of whom are illegitimates......again...jus­t my two cents...:)

[leotakesleo]

its not just pipeline .....its 5 trillion cubic meter of gas reserves,uranium reserves ,gold reserves,oil and other precious metal reserves in addition to unexplored reserves.....cause these estimates were of soviet union and they never could explore more in afghanistan coz their never got a chance....soviets were willing to spendevery penny to remain there...and the same thing brought these anglo-europeans there...their greed gonna get them screwed....:)....

[churchmn]

The interview and your viewpoints were excellent by the way. I've posted this vid in my favorites. Great job!

[churchmn]

My take on the the oil pipeline is that someone in Pakistan wants it as badly as the oil companies do (probably for revenues). The reason I believe this is because our state department asked for the replacement of Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad after the reports came out about him funneling money to Al Qaida prior to 9/11. Whatever the specifics were, the results sent us into Afghanistan. What Americans never hear about is the civil war in Pakistan over that same pipeline. Check my site for a vid on this.