FLASH....4 More Canadians killed in Afganistan,..

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Alex...and others who might be observing this thread...


I'm stretching my political belief in imagining that our troops in Afghanistan are there for any purported purpose.

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Would someone please explain to me why the **** our troops are in Afghanistan?

Jon....
As usual ,it is about oil and gas...in my humble opinion...
Uzbekistan,on the northern border of Afganistan is rotton with gas and oil....
In order to have access to gas and oil starved western democracies,a route for the pipeline is needed to get the gas to the sea,where it can be liquified and shipped by tanker to the customers...
Can,t run the pipeline through Russia,Iran,or China....they would steal it....
Gotta get it to Pakistan,a western friendly(?) nation to have access to the sea...
What is left to route the pipeline....?
Afganistan...
Here is a map...
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...&ct=image&cd=2

I don't know if this link will work..But Google up a map of Afganistan..

Here is a part of the next link...
Don't shoot me...You asked why we were there....

Unocal foresees a pipeline which would become part of a regional system that will gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day. The estimated cost of the project, which is similar in scope to the trans-Alaska pipeline, is about $2.5 billion.

This is from the 1998 Congressional report...long before 9 11

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oil.html