Is an Oil Pipeline Behind Canada's War in Afghanistan?

The Globe and Mail reported on 19 June 2008 in the article titled "Pipeline opens new front in Afghan war", that so-called conspiracy theories associated with an oil pipeline as a basis for War in Afghanistan ...

[Canada]

Looks like the answer is Yes

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Iraqi oil pipeline sabotage drops sharply

A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and

profit from the rise in world energy prices,

the country's oil minister said Friday.

http://www.topix.net/world/2008/06/iraqi-oil-...

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[Canada]

... an estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas and 100-200 billion barrels of oil. Securing the world's last remaining known energy El Dorado is a strategic priority for the western powers.

But there are only two practical ways to get gas and oil out of land-locked Central Asia to the sea: Through Iran, or through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Iran is taboo for Washington. That leaves Pakistan, but to get there, the planned pipeline must cross western Afghanistan, including the cities of Herat and Kandahar.

PIPELINE DEAL

In 1998, the Afghan anti-Communist movement Taliban and a western oil consortium led by the U.S. firm Unocal signed a major pipeline deal. Unocal lavished money and attention on the Taliban, flew a senior delegation to Texas, and hired a minor Afghan official, Hamid Karzai.

Enter Osama bin Laden. He advised the unworldly Taliban leaders to reject the U.S. deal and got them to accept a better offer from an Argentine consortium. Washington was furious and, according to some accounts, threatened the Taliban with war.

In early 2001, six or seven months before 9/11, Washington made the decision to invade Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and install a client regime that would build the energy pipelines. But Washington still kept sending money to the Taliban until four months before 9/11 in an effort to keep it "on side" for possible use in a war against China.

The 9/11 attacks, about which the Taliban knew nothing, supplied the pretext to invade Afghanistan. The initial U.S. operation had ...

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Subject: "These Wars Are About Oil, Not Democracy"

Date: Mon 06/23/08 09:56 AM

MP Garth Turner ,S

Sending you this article just in case you didn't already know that Canada is part of an international gang raping the planet and spilling blood in order to steal the earth's resources and subjugate its peoples.

Sincerely,

Brian

*Sun, June 22, 2008*

These wars are about oil, not democracy

http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/2008/06/22/...

*By ERIC MARGOLIS <emailto: margolis @ foreigncorrespondent.com *

[Night Train]

What a load of camel crap! As soon as I read that Afghanistan is a US war, I immediately questioned the intent and accuracy of the article.
The conflict in Afghanistan is a NATO war involving many more countries than simply the US. It is a legal conflict having been sanctioned by the United Nations. Anyone that paints the Afghanistan situation with the same brush as the Iraq war is a total idiot. Iraq is an American led, conceived, illegal conflict that is not endorsed by NATO and termed illegal by the United Nations. The US incursion into Iraq is no different than Saddam's incursion into Kuwait which prompted the first Gulf War. The only difference is the US is big enough to do as they please on the world stage at the present time and no one is in a position to challenge them militarily or economically. Another ten or so years will change that scenario with the growth of the European Union, and the advancement of China, unless the new president whomever it will be, will bring a new perspective to the White House.

[Harley-Honey]

You don't really think we are there to help those people do you? First of all they are not worth helping. Secondly, that is just cover up.
I am not too pleased with the price of gas,but I also am an investor in the stuff, so I am enjoying all the profit. I certainly do not care about how these people live.

[Nightflyer]

Night Train wrote:

What a load of camel crap! As soon as I read that Afghanistan is a US war, I immediately questioned the intent and accuracy of the article.
The conflict in Afghanistan is a NATO war involving many more countries than simply the US. It is a legal conflict having been sanctioned by the United Nations. Anyone that paints the Afghanistan situation with the same brush as the Iraq war is a total idiot. Iraq is an American led, conceived, illegal conflict that is not endorsed by NATO and termed illegal by the United Nations. The US incursion into Iraq is no different than Saddam's incursion into Kuwait which prompted the first Gulf War. The only difference is the US is big enough to do as they please on the world stage at the present time and no one is in a position to challenge them militarily or economically. Another ten or so years will change that scenario with the growth of the European Union, and the advancement of China, unless the new president whomever it will be, will bring a new perspective to the White House.

Couldn't have said it better!!

[Margo]

Yes, the only truth is probably this one that Bushie and his mates destroyed their towers and the rest ( 9/11 attacks ) to have to persuede to UN and other nations ruled by not very smart people and saying truly: very dishonest persons that that attacks were made by terrorists ( poor, rural persons from Afghanistan, who knows only Afghan language, can not write and read and were never out of their Afghan villages demolished towers in USA? Only idiots can believe in it ). And all those wars have one main purpose: to support harmonious development of Russia, Iran and other countries who are located in this region including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - it is really totally tragedy what was made there by USA. And it is one big proof what a fucked country is USA in reality.
What does it bring? These wars are lost sooner or later. They are really more and more cruel and it will be ended with one big shame and defeat.

[Harley-Honey]

The US is a wonderful country, filled with many wonderful people.

And I like Bush.

[dHat Pawlo]

HAPPY ''141'' BIRTHDAY...CANADA,toooo booot!!!...eh.Thankyous'.GOD BLESS....eh...

[Nightflyer]

Margo wrote:

Yes, the only truth is probably this one that Bushie and his mates destroyed their towers and the rest ( 9/11 attacks ) to have to persuede to UN and other nations ruled by not very smart people and saying truly: very dishonest persons that that attacks were made by terrorists ( poor, rural persons from Afghanistan, who knows only Afghan language, can not write and read and were never out of their Afghan villages demolished towers in USA? Only idiots can believe in it ). And all those wars have one main purpose: to support harmonious development of Russia, Iran and other countries who are located in this region including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - it is really totally tragedy what was made there by USA. And it is one big proof what a fucked country is USA in reality.
What does it bring? These wars are lost sooner or later. They are really more and more cruel and it will be ended with one big shame and defeat.

No, see you're wrong and probably on drugs too because you don't make sense.

Everyone knows the hijackers of 9/11 were not Afghans, duh!!! But, the taliban and the aboslute backwardness of Afghan society harbor terrorists like Osama and his group al-qaeda.

You can't rememebr the days after 9/11?...when the taliban were told to hand him over etc...If countries or people don't hand over known terrorists, especially one who ordered/committed something like 9/11...then expect to be attacked.Hopefully Iran wil get it next, the supporter of radical islamic terrorists and probably Pakistan too.

By the way, Germany has soldiers in Afghanistan and may be sending more. Why?...what do they do there?