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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (257797)	5/22/2002 10:32:27 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769667

That stinks. Either they are honest, and have some sort of reasonable explanation... Or they are friggin' crooks, who want to stonewall, divert attention, and play hob with this country to their profit. I'm sure there are honest ones in the bunch, but they'll go down with the ship, if it has holes. Even a "little bit" of profiteering is enough to raise holy hell among Americans, at this point. Maybe that's why the investigation absolutely has to be stopped. It would make official whatever the true story turns out to be, and make it impossible to ignore. This link doesn't look good. The accusations aren't against a party, just a group.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (257797)	5/22/2002 10:35:28 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"..the Bush administration blocked investigations of Osama Bin Laden while it bargained for him with the Taliban in exchange for political recognition and economic aid, is guiding much of the recent European coverage. "Written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, the book adds another plank to the argument that America's major objective was to gain access to the region's oil and gas reserves. "According to the book, the Bush administration began to negotiate with the Taliban immediately after coming into power. The parties talked for many months before reaching an impasse in August 2001. "The terrorist acts of Sept. 11, though tragic, provided the Bush administration a legitimate reason to invade Afghanistan, oust the recalcitrant Taliban and, coincidentally, smooth the way for the pipeline. "To make things even smoother, the U.S. engineered the rise to power of two former Unocal employees: Hamid Karzai, the new interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the Bush administration's Afghanistan envoy. "Osama Bin Laden did not comprehend that his actions serve American interests," writes Uri Averny, in a Feb. 14 column in the daily Ma'ariv in Israel. Averny, a former member of the Israeli Knesset and a noted peace activist, added, "If I were a believer in conspiracy theory, I would think that Bin Laden is an American agent. Not being one I can only wonder at the coincidence." "Averny argues that the war on terrorism provides a perfect pretext for America's imperial interests. "If one looks at the map of the big American bases created for the war, one is struck by the fact that they are completely identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean." afgha.com