(August 29, 2011 at 4:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Really, a pipeline? Had we spent the money consumed by the invasion bribing the locals how many such pipelines could have been built?
The pipeline may be just a small part of the story. There could be another reason for the invasion, which is, because there is also has a huge amount of mineral deposits and rare-earth metals in the country that the CIA and Pentagon officials may have known about (although in the media you'll see that they are trying to make an impression as if they just 'suddenly' found these minerals after going there). Here's a quote from an article in The New York Times:
Quote:WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
This is also good for making laptops, cell phones, and all that stuff:
Quote:An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/...erals.html
@ Thor and Minimalist:
I don't believe that these are crank websites. There is more evidence that the attack may have been a false-flag terror in a book entitled "9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA," written by a non-Muslim (Webster Tarpley), which I also mentioned in post # 8 with a link. He supports his arguments with a wealth of data and facts about 9/11 which should not be discredited as something crazy, religious, or bullshit until you read it yourself and look at all the arguments provided therein. However, it's fine with me if you still don't believe any of this. You guys can believe whatever that you want to.
