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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (4167)	11/22/2003 4:40:57 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Don, Re: but like yourself, I haven't seen anything in the public domain with that much detail on the plans for invading Afghanistan. I do recall reading, I believe in Paul Thompson's work at the Center for Cooperative Research, that the Navy was actually pre-positioning carrier assets in the Indian Ocean adjacent to Pakistan in the weeks prior to 9/11. ***** Re: The Miniter statement would appear to confirm that item, but it strikes me as the sort of thing I would have run across a long time ago if the information was available Certainly not in the American media. <g> ***** Re: The obvious question would be why were we planning a war against Afghanistan before there was an excuse to go to war with Afghanistan. Just use Occam's Razor and the answer is obvious. The U.S. oil corporations, acting through their thugs in the U.S. government wanted to secure a route to the Indian Ocean for the fabulous oil & gas riches of the Caspian Basin and Turkmenistan. Enron was actually involved in lobbying George Bush when he was Governor of Texas and as President to negotiate with the Taliban for access. I've seen the document signed by "Ken Lay". ***** Re: So, either, as you suggest, Miniter is lying, or Miniter has access to the PDBs and has been authorized to put some spin on it before the official release. Upon further reflection, I'm now more inclined to call Miniter's phrasing spin as opposed to outright lying. **** There's a quote that is floating around regarding the negotiations with the Taliban. According to a couple of sources I've seen, a U.S. State Dept. official was purported to have told the Taliban that we would either cover them with a "carpet of dollars or a carpet of bombs" at a meeting in the summer of 2001. The Taliban refused to come to terms with the negotiators, and the rest is history.