Bush, Afghanistan and Unocal
Who’s Unocal you ask - one of the biggest contributors to Bush’s campaign that’s who. Who are they? An oil company. What’s the deal? Well glad you asked. Unocal has been negotiating build an oil/gas pipeline across Central Asia for quite a few years. That pipeline has to run through Afghanistan or Iran and US embargoes prevent American oil companies from dealing with Iran. THere ar many people, myself included, who believe this war on terrorism has little to do with terorism and everything to do with oil. Here’s some links that will supply you with some interesting perspectives on Unocal, Bush and Afghanistan but first here’s a quote from John J. Maresca a Unocal VP given to the Congrssional Subcomittee on Asia and the Pacific in 1998. see link below for full text.
The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company
Congrssional Subcomittee on Asia and the Pacific
Google Search on Bush and Unocal
Oil, Afghanistan and Caspian Sea Resorces
I think the quantity of mounting circumstantial evidence is pretty impressive but I don’t think the proverbial smoking gun will ever be found.
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