Afghanistan, Vietnam By Any Other Name
Of late, there has been alot of press on the Afghanistan Countdown to Drawdown, or exit strategy. A reader at SA commented: "Why do you think US forces are in Saudi Arabia? To protect US oil interests. Sure, if something like Vietnam happens in Saudi Arabia"
The Nattering One muses... Trebek queries: After the USA trained and supplied this CIA asset, he turned on them. Answer: Of late, who is Manny Noriega, Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden?
In this case Bin Laden decided to reneg on his promise to facilitate building of the TAPI pipeline. Hence Afghanistan = Vietnam II. Substantiation follows, as in follow the money...
"If one looks at the map of the big American bases created for the war, one is struck by the fact that they are completely identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean." - Uri Avnery, former member of the Israeli Knesset, February 2002 article in Israeli daily Ma'ariv
Dateline April 24, 2005, we nattered in $80 Billion Military Budget Fraud: "Last week in Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters the U.S. has no "exit strategy", just a "victory strategy", and he was not joking.
Last week the House quietly passed $81 Billion in emergency supplemental military funding for military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The media spin: the money is going to support our troops and provide for training and armoured equipment needs.
Interesting codicil: The planned locations for the new bases extend coverage of a line created by the existing bases. That line is the path of the oil pipeline currently being constructed through Afghanistan and Iraq."
Further substantiation:
Pipeline path 'clearing and holding' forces
In a June 2008 article in the Toronto Sun entitled "These wars are about oil, not democracy", defence analyst and journalist Eric Margolis remarked on the U.S. military bases just happening to be adjacent to the planned pipeline route, and wrote: "Work will begin on the TAPI once Taliban forces are cleared from the pipeline route by U.S., Canadian and NATO forces. As American analyst Kevin Phillips writes, the U.S. military and its allies have become an "energy protection force."
In a September 2009 article, author-journalist Richard W. Behan wrote: "Superimposing the base-locations over maps of the pipelines, the Bush Administration’s design is unmistakable. U.S. bases in Afghanistan proper — there are now 15 altogether — precisely straddle the prospective pipeline routes."
Hence, as the US has ongoing interests to protect, they will never leave Afghanistan or Iraq. And don't you forget, the USA always proudly fights for freedom, democracy, truth, justice and the American way.
Sources: Opposition to the War in Arghanistan
The Nattering One muses... Trebek queries: After the USA trained and supplied this CIA asset, he turned on them. Answer: Of late, who is Manny Noriega, Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden?
In this case Bin Laden decided to reneg on his promise to facilitate building of the TAPI pipeline. Hence Afghanistan = Vietnam II. Substantiation follows, as in follow the money...
"If one looks at the map of the big American bases created for the war, one is struck by the fact that they are completely identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean." - Uri Avnery, former member of the Israeli Knesset, February 2002 article in Israeli daily Ma'ariv
Dateline April 24, 2005, we nattered in $80 Billion Military Budget Fraud: "Last week in Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters the U.S. has no "exit strategy", just a "victory strategy", and he was not joking.
Last week the House quietly passed $81 Billion in emergency supplemental military funding for military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The media spin: the money is going to support our troops and provide for training and armoured equipment needs.
Interesting codicil: The planned locations for the new bases extend coverage of a line created by the existing bases. That line is the path of the oil pipeline currently being constructed through Afghanistan and Iraq."
Further substantiation:
Pipeline path 'clearing and holding' forces
In a June 2008 article in the Toronto Sun entitled "These wars are about oil, not democracy", defence analyst and journalist Eric Margolis remarked on the U.S. military bases just happening to be adjacent to the planned pipeline route, and wrote: "Work will begin on the TAPI once Taliban forces are cleared from the pipeline route by U.S., Canadian and NATO forces. As American analyst Kevin Phillips writes, the U.S. military and its allies have become an "energy protection force."
In a September 2009 article, author-journalist Richard W. Behan wrote: "Superimposing the base-locations over maps of the pipelines, the Bush Administration’s design is unmistakable. U.S. bases in Afghanistan proper — there are now 15 altogether — precisely straddle the prospective pipeline routes."
Hence, as the US has ongoing interests to protect, they will never leave Afghanistan or Iraq. And don't you forget, the USA always proudly fights for freedom, democracy, truth, justice and the American way.
Sources: Opposition to the War in Arghanistan
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