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To: Vitas who wrote (8325)	4/2/2004 7:47:44 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

>>>David Ross (D.R.): Throughout the Internet after the September 11th attacks, there was a lot of talk of blowback. When, in fact, a year before the attacks, you wrote the book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, where you predicted events such as 9-11. What is blowback and what are its causes? Chalmers Johnson: "Blowback" is a CIA term. It was first invented after the CIA intervention against the government of Iran in 1953 when we overthrew an elected government there for the interests of the British and American petroleum industries. Blowback refers to the unintended consequences of clandestine policies that have been kept secret from the American public. I think it's important to stress that any policy may have unintended consequences, but here we're talking about unintended consequences of policies that the public knows nothing about, therefore, has no context within which to place them, and ends up with a daffy president going around asking, "Why do they hate us?"<<< zmag.org Let's take a quote from the above: "...in 1953 when we overthrew an elected government there for the interests of the British and American petroleum industries." Vitas, nothing's changed. You've been fooled! Bush has fooled you. You might seriously begin to think about this! Do some research on the Afghanistan pipeline negotiations, involving Enron and the Taliban, during Bush's first months in office, leading up to 9/11. The CIA had a block on Afghanistan intelligence, in order to faciliate the secret negotiations, during the months leading up to 9/11. During this period Bush gave the Taliban 43 million as part of the bribe, a drug war bribe, to help grease the pipeline deal so Enron could feed its money-wasting Indian power plant from Caspian Sea energy sources. Bush, et. al., thought the Taliban, since they were so anti-drug, would go along. As it turned out, OBL was more important to the Taliban. What they're talking about here is money, not freedom. What you're talking about here is money, not freedom. I won't be fooled and neither should you!

To: Vitas who wrote (8325)	4/2/2004 7:49:50 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

They're living under martial law. Shrubbery is always more confused than everyone else. That hasn't changed. Shrubbery is a coward. That hasn't changed. He does hear from God now and again so he may be able to see into the future. Of course, that's a sign of insanity which is much more likely. There was no room in the NeoCon playbook for a negotiated anything. The Shrubbery admin turned down last minute negotiations. Oh yeah, they wanted SH to turn over WMDs which he did not have. The US was into preemptive, unilateral action what about that is negotiation? How easily you forget. I know of no Arabian country who hates me. I don't hate any Arabian country either. What is your problem, trying to start another fight? For the millionth time, there is not proven connection between Iraq and 911 EXCEPT that we diverted troops into Iraq from Afghanistan. Afghanistan would like a total of 28 billion thank you. Terrorists will be terrorists as long as they have a cause. OBL spends $250-$500K and recruits 20 fanatics. In exchange Shrubbery spends $200b and takes down a secular despot leaving the country open for the rise of fundamentalism. Do you still not understand what is actually happening?