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To: roto who wrote (33875)	8/19/2021 9:23:55 AM
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No, Afghanistan doesn't have oil. But the Caspian sea basin does. Dick wanted to pull a pipeline through Afghanistan to bypass Iran. As early as 1997 (during Clinton administration) he was making a national security case for invading Afghanistan so he can have his pipeline. Meanwhile, the Bin Laden Group (also a big construction and oil services company) had a similar plan. Only they had their bro influencing the Taliban. The negotiations dragged on for years until some of the players dropped out. But Dick had to be a dick and sent someone to threaten the Taliban and tell them to either take gold or lead (I think their phrase was to sit on a carpet of gold or be buried under a carpet of fire). That kind of tone doesn't go well with tribal chiefs. OBL, who was still just an honored guest but had been increasing his influence, used the incident to get a green light for his attack on America. Even after 9/11 Cheney was willing to make truce if the Taliban handed OBL over and agreed to the pipeline. But not only such a loss of face was unacceptable to the Afghans, 9/11 gave Cheney and the Neocons their in to their wet dream. They did not care about Afghanistan much if they could have Iraq (and later Iran). And you know the rest of the history. I don't want to oversimplify this as a war between two oil services giants. There were a lot of moving parts. But the conflict between Haliburton and BLG was certainly a critical piece that sealed the fate. As was the arrogance of the US agents. This is my very last post on this subject. You research the subject if you are interested. EDIT - If you are going to research this, it will help if you look at French sources. But even without them you should be able to see hints of this in American media. Start your search around 1996/1997.

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