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

To: rich4eagle who wrote (301853)	9/28/2002 8:49:06 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There is a long standing relationship between Vice President Cheney and middle eastern oil producers. It is widely known that a consortium of oil industry giants were negotiating with the Taliban in the late 1990's to install a pipeline through the heart of Afghanistan. Here is a quote directly from Mr. Cheney in 1998 when he was CEO of oil services giant Haliburton: "I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian. It's almost as if the opportunities have arisen overnight. The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is." On May 2, 1997, Dow Jones reported several oil giants, with Enron and Haliburton at the forefront, were looking at spending $22 billion for a pipeline through Afghanistan. Here is an excerpt from that report: "For many years under Soviet control, the mineral-rich nations of central Asia have had little return for their wealth. Now two of the republics, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are looking west for assistance in exploiting their resource, and major companies, including Unocal Corp. (UCL) and Enron Corp. (ENE), have moved swiftly to try to fill the void. Argentine oil firm Bridas, an early entrant in the fray, is trying hard to defend its ground against U.S corporate and government muscle. In an effort called the ''project of the century,'' by its creators, Mitsubishi Oil Co. (J.MBO), China's National Petroleum Corp. and an affiliate of Exxon Corp. (XON) plan to build a massive $22 billion gas pipeline from central Asia through China to Japan. Asia's need for energy to power its growing economies is increasing rapidly. Japanese gas demand is expected to double by 2010 and China and Pakistan will soon face acute fuel gaps, some of which could be fulfilled with reliable, and possibly cheaper sources in central Asia. Now the U.S. oil and gas companies face their sternest test - getting the oil out of central Asia while avoiding Russia, Iran and China. Their main option: Afghanistan . The latest Review details the power plays of the new Great Game, the intrigue and the betrayal as the West's executives, diplomats and other experts court both the dictators of central Asia and the radical Islamic fundamentalists of Afghanistan 's Taliban." The Far Eastern Economic Review is published by Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and this newswire. (END) DOW JONES NEWS 04-02-97 There is clear evidence major oil companies were looking to do business in Afghanistan in the late 90's. The door is now open with the Taliban unseated. Furthermore, the current President of Afghanistan, Hamid Kharzai, is a former oil executive at Unocal. The Enron, Unocal, and Haliburton ties are all well documented, and unfairly erode your credibility in this arena. Now a cynic might conclude that the bombing of Afghanistan and the proposed bombing of Iraq is all about oil control by Cheney and his buddies. The administration wouldn't exploit 9/11 to do that, would they? Del