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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (216694)	1/10/2002 1:52:50 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Maybe I was right after all: Apparently, the Bush administration found no moral dilemma in dealing with the Taliban to get to the gas. Immediately upon their arrival in Washington, a vigorous courtship of the Taliban was undertaken by Bush's people. In fact, if former U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler is to be believed, the Bush administration had a vested interest in strengthening and stabilizing the Taliban regime, because a stable regime would compel investors to revive the Turkmenistan natural gas pipeline deal. The Taliban, demon of the moment, was the Bush administration's idea of a 'stable' government. Stable enough, anyway, to see the pipeline through. The connections between Bush and the Taliban became so close that the Taliban went so far as to hire an expert on U.S. public relations named Laila Helms, so as to smooth the way between the two regimes. Meetings between the two nations continued at a high level, the last of which occurred in August, scant weeks before the September 11th attacks. All of these actions were taken to exploit the vast energy reserves in Turkmenistan for the benefit of American energy corporations. The cozy relationship between Bush and the Taliban frustrated the investigative efforts of former Deputy Director of the FBI John O'Neill. O'Neill was the FBI's chief bin Laden hunter, in charge of the investigations into the bin Laden-connected bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, the destruction of an American troop barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the African embassy bombings in 1998, and the attack upon the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. Go here for the full story: Message 16890030

To: gao seng who wrote (216694)	1/10/2002 1:59:32 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I sent you a story from a media source in the UK that gave facts concerning a link between oil and the war in Afghanistan. THere is no blame in my post.....I was referencing an article that alludes to the politics of big oil having involvement in Afghanistan. Are you doubting that the BUsh administration has ties to Bug oil companies??? LOL....Cheney, Bush , Rice...just to name a few. Of course, since Bush's two oil companies went broke I guess we could argue that he has no ties to big oil cause he never found it even in Texas. I am going to the gym now. I am training for a 3 day,60 mile walk for breast cancer this summer from San Jose and San Francisco Ca. We will raise money so women who don't have mammogram coverage can have their mammogram paid for. bethepeople.com