Why the Afghan War is a Corporate Fraud

Thanks to RubberWilbur for alerting me to this video.

The proposed Trans Afghan Pipeline (TAP) was recently renamed as the Turkmen/Afghan/Pak/India pipeline (TAPI) because of a change in direction which will avoid the Taliban stronghold of Waziristan. US troops can't protect a pipeline in Pakistan's most dangerous province, so the plans have changed, and the pipeline will now go across Pakistan and into India. In other words, they're still planning to build it. This is why American troops were sent to invade Afghanistan in the first place. (Anyone who believes we're chasing Osama Bin Laden, or even that he's still alive, should see my other videos on that subject.)

Benazir Bhutto told us Bin Laden was dead (then she was killed a month later), and recently her husband, President Zadari, said the same thing to an oblivious audience on American TV. No one seems to remember that OBL denied responsibility for the 911 attacks immediately after they happened. Unfortunately, his response was played down by our media, yet we're putting Kahlid Sheik Mohamed on trial for the very same thing we blamed Bin Laden for. There is also much evidence the OBL videos were faked. Even with all the lies told to the American public, most of us know the Taliban had nothing to do with 911. Yet we say we're going after Al Qaida when we're really fighting the Taliban over who controls their country.

Negotiations for this pipeline started in 1997, and while G.W. Bush wined and dined a Taliban entourage in Texas, then President Bill Clinton gave Unocal his support (along with congress) for their proposed pipeline which will extend from the Caspian Basin out to the Arabian Sea. (No wonder Bush Sr. called him his "son.") Hamid Karzai is a Unocal advisor who works with the Northern Alliance. The Pashtuns hate them because they're harder on the people than the Taliban were. So what are we really doing there? We're not really fighting Al Qaida, and we're not going after Bin Laden, and we're not helping the Afghan people at all. Profit would appear to be the only motivation, and while our troops are risking their lives to protect the interests of the oil companies and the major corporations, American taxpayers are footing the bill for the whole thing. Isn't unrestrained Capitalism wonderful?

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