This was the reply, by someone else on a different site
to mine, and someone else’s posts regarding U.S. policy in the middle east.
I think it hits things right on the dot.
]The Real Reason for the War On Terror
Yes, it’s called the Kissinger Plan. […]
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Brutus
May 31, 2004, 11:19am
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I hope you’re right, but I doubt it.
neoconservefister:
Ecaduor has already amassed 10,000 troops along the Columbian border. It’s suspected that the southern 1/3 of Columbia holds massive undiscovered oil reserves, and the U.S. wants to get its hands on them!
Ecuador has troops on its border with Colombia to put a stop to raids by groups from Colombia that drop in on Lago Agrio to kidnap oil workers. Every now and again an oil worker goes missing and this has a tendency to make the folks working on the oil rigs a bit nervous. Since the oil companies cannot affort not to ransom their employees, it make sense for them to pressure the government to put troops on the border.
CJ
Ok, skip the columbia thing. The neocons plan has been in motion, and gaining mommentum on the global stage. Too bad the truth is coming out.
The Bush orthodoxy is in shreds
A series of investigations has shattered neocon self-belief
Sidney Blumenthal Thursday May 27, 2004 The Guardian
At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac
at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent
neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential
espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi
classified information about the plans of the US government and military?
[…]
[Edited down out of copyright concerns. Please post links or short excerpts only. --Gaudere]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1225600,00.html
Well, if so, we’re really screwing it up bad.
And wouldn’t the cost offset the potential benefits to the economy?