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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: LPS5 who wrote (23714)10/2/2002 12:17:59 AM
From: Gary H  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Why all the sudden concern for Afghanistan? Do you rally think that the US Gov. cares about kids flying kites?
It's all about Pipelinastan. Get that Caspian oil to market, control Iraq oil. It's all about oil.

hermes-press.com

"In 1964, after Vietnam was divided into North and South, and the contrived Gulf of Tonkin incident, several U.S. aircraft carriers were stationed offshore of Vietnam and the 'war' was started. Every day jet planes would take off from the carriers, bomb locations in North and South Vietnam, and then using normal military procedure when returning would dump their unsafe or unused bombs in the ocean before landing back on the carriers. Safe ordnance drop zones were designated for this purpose away from the carriers.

"Even close-up observers would only notice many small explosions occurring daily in the waters of the South China Sea and thought it was only part of the 'war.' The U.S. Navy carriers had begun Operation Linebacker One, and Standard Oil had begun its ten year oil survey of the seabed off of Vietnam. And the Vietnamese, Chinese and everybody else around, including the Americans, were none the wiser. The oil survey hardly cost Standard Oil a nickel, the U.S. taxpayers paid for it."

So twenty years later and 57,000 Americans and half a million Vietnamese dead, Standard Oil had enough data and the war in Vietnam could end. Nelson Rockefeller's personal assistant, Henry Kissinger, represented the U.S. at the Vietnam/Paris Peace talks and won a Nobel Peace Prize in the bargain.

Nice people this US Gov. and the oilmen. So, 57,000 lives then, how many now?
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