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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (8077)	12/1/2001 10:23:50 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 93284

Ms Rice was not involved with Exxon as I originally thought. She was involved with Chevron. Here is an article which that contains the information: The war Number of times in which the United States have sent troops against other nations from it's independence before the bombing of Afghanistan: 216 Number of countries bombed by the USA since 1945: 23 Main conclusion reached by the military, diplomats and republican academics in the Document of Santa Fe no. 4: "It is a national priority for the United States of America to find a new international enemy" Characterisation of this political moment by Bush: "It is a moment of definitions. We have the opportunity of restructuring the world towards freedom, and we will do it" The oil Oil company in which Condoleza Rice (National Security counselor) was part of it's directive group: Chevron Proportion of oil that the USA has to import to meet it's own needs: 60%. Place of origin of a significant part of the oil imported to the United States: Persian Gulf Percentage of world oil reserves located in this part of the world: 65 Place on the ranking of gas and oil reservoirs of the Caspian Sea and Central Asian republics: third Weapon business World military budget during the year 2000: 789,000 million dollars Probable military expenditure in the United States in 2002: 375,000 million dollars Annual amount of money spent per person per year on war activities around the world: 130 dollars Percentage of the world weapon market that the USA's war industry had in 1999: 49.1% Country in the second place of the ranking on selling weapons during 1999, with 18.7% of the total market: Great Britain Position of France on the weapon market ranking: third Number of American weapon companies among the ten main weaponry companies in the world: 7 Place in which the British company Bae Systems occupies in this list: third Number of French weapon companies located among the first ten: two The five countries with most military expenditure in the world in 1999: USA, Russia, France, Japan and Great Britain The five countries that received the most conventional weapons between 1996 and 2000: Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Korea and China War against who? Date in which the president of the United States signed the first secret memorandum to help the opposition to the Soviet Union in Kabul: 3rd July 1979 Explanation that Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security counselor of the United States during president Carter's administration, gave to his president about the above mentioned issue: "We now have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union it's own Vietnam war" Day on which the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan: 24th December 1979 Original characterization given by Washington to the Taliban militia: "Fighters for freedom" Name of the Northern Alliance leader, known as war criminal who's troops raped thousands of women in Kabul during the nineties: Abdul Rashid Dostum Northern Alliance leader who used women belonging to the shia ethnic group as sexual slaves in the nineties: Rasoul Sayaf Region of Afghanistan that produced the largest amount of opium this year: the one controlled by the Northern Alliance Allied country of the United States in which women cannot drive and the monarch changes wife every year: Saudi Arabia Mechanism by which the general Musharraf, president of Pakistan, vital allied for the bombing of Afghanistan took power: coup against the elected government of Nawaz Sharif Number of political prisoners in Uzbekistan, base for the allied operations against Afghanistan: 7,000 Strategic economic project of Uzbekistan: to build up an oil pipe crossing Afghanistan and connect Uzbekistan with a port in Pakistan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------