NP - No War for Oil!

[David Morris]

http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/14/silverstein-k.html

The war in Afghanistan is a sham. The Bush administration had advance 
knowledge of the September 11 attacks but took no action, using the assaults 
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as an excuse to topple the 
Taliban regime and legitimize the takeover of Afghanistan. Well-placed 
government insiders, knowing of the impending attacks, made fortunes by 
betting on a huge fall in airline stocks. The war is not about terrorism but 
about America's desire to control energy in Central Asia and promote 
corporate plans to plunder the region's reserves. The chief U.S. concern all 
along has been to help Unocal Corporation build a pipeline across 
Afghanistan, which would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.

By now all of this is obvious -- that is, it's obvious if you get your 
information from the Internet or from certain far-right or left-wing 
circles, where conspiracy theories about the war run rampant. A classic 
example was a story by Patrick Martin on Rense.com, a Web site whose great 
popularity suggests that much of the U.S. population is terminally paranoid. 
"The American media has conducted a systematic cover-up of the real economic 
and strategic interests that underlie the war against Afghanistan, in order 
to sustain the pretense that the war emerged overnight, full-blown, in 
response to the terrorist attacks of September 11," Martin wrote.



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