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THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO
TELL US THE TRUTH. THERE IS SO MUCH I WANT TO SAY....BUT THER E IS SO
LITTLE TIME TO SAY IT. GOD IS GREAT.. LONG LIVE FREEDOM.
Jennie and Steve
Jerry Aspar Triumph -----In 1940, five years before America died while giving -----birth to The Superpower, Louis M Hacker wrote in his -----fine book *The Triumph of American Capitalism*: --------All wars today, the state can prove, are defensive. -----Now, sixty-three years later, the current rage is for -----the state to prove that all wars are offensive. -----The Superpower's invasion of Iraq is the latest attempt -----at a proof; and there's no doubt which side is being -----invaded and which side is invading. -----But now the European Union strides onto the world stage -----and attempts to hide which is which. -----Under the Tuesday April 1, 2003 headline ----------EU Drafts Human Rights Resolution For War -----Associated Press reports: --------The European Union proposed a United Nations human --------rights resolution Tuesday urging both sides to "abide --------strictly" by international law in the war on Iraq. -----In other words, the war of aggression against Iraq is -----perfectly all right if both sides abide strictly by -----the Hitler Threat. -----Hitler Threat? -----Back then the threat was phrased so delicately: ------------Proclamation of the Reich Government ------------to the German Volk, February 1, 1933 --------May the understanding of all others assist us in --------fulfilling this, our most sincere wish, for the --------welfare of Europe, and more, for the welfare of the --------whole world. --------As great as is our love for our army as the bearer --------of our arms and the symbol of our great past, we --------would be happy if the world by limiting its own --------armaments, would never again make it necessary for --------us to increase ours. -----Now beautiful words are no longer needed: -------------THERE SHALL BE NO INTERNATIONAL LAW --------------------EVER AGAIN, ANYWHERE! -----That is just one part of The Superpower's Declaration -----of Slavery. -----First Iraq, etc. -----Then Europe, etc.
Top reason for stopping the "war": It's eating away America's future. I want a future that doesn't involve house-to-house fighting in Nebraska as a last desperate band of American patriot guerrillas fight off Homeland Security storm troopers. I want a future where my children can go to church and be taught to love their neighbors. I want a future I can be proud of -- democracy, jobs, schools, ART! I want a future where there are laws to protect our freedom and there are laws to keep weapons manufacturers from raking it in. I want a future where the people of the world at least TRY to work together to keep the human race from blowing up the planet! Let's start moving in that direction. "Oh say does that Star-Spangled Banner still wave? O'Er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave?" It takes real bravery to have a hopeful future. Stop this dirty little "war" today! Best
regards, Jane Stillwater, Berkeley,
CA "Imagine a world where EVERY child is wanted, nurtured, protected and loved: World Peace in one generation!" Wear a peace pin today. Links: From my friend Leona: The purpose of this "war" is not to capture Iraq or even to get the oil. The purpose of this "war" is to spend money on weapons. William Rivers Pitt | Our Flag, Too Film Afghan Massacre—Convoy of Death exposing Pentagon
war crimes premieres in US By Bill Vann
I am against violence which usually occurs when both sides run out of brains. I judge governments by the way they treat their people and in my estimation Saddam Hussein and his government has constantly violated human decency in the way they treat the Iraqi people but their are other governments who need to look at the way they treat their people and their neighbors. Religion, religion what crimes have been committed in thy name. Paul E. Wright Editor: This is an internal Iraqi issue. Anyway, does a violation of human rights in any country give the US and the UK the right to invade that country? Who gave them that right? The UN should be the authority to address such issues. President Bush never mentioned this as a cause of the war. He announced that his goal is disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, which have never been found by UN inspectors or by US-UK forces.
Dear Sirs,
I am not affiliated with any organization,
however I feel compelled to plead with you to report as fairly and
honestly as possible with the situation so volatile in your
region. The absolute truth that is unbiased and fair is an
imperative. You know that Iraq has even banned your network,
which has in the past shown them in a favorable light. Why do
you suppose that is? If they weren't planning to do something
that they didn't want you to see they would be more open.
Please Please be Journalists that can be
counted on for the TRUTH. I care about the Iraqi people as well
as any others who are in harms way.
Sincerely
Terry Worthington
USA
Editor: We are not related to Al-Jazeera TV.
They send their troops towards Baghdad, but they have been warned by Iraqi leaders: The soldier's mothers will cry blood instead of tears. They"ll see their sons and daughters been burned by the same petrol the US leaders are so eager to get. Meanwhile US goes bankrupt. Go, rich Arab people, and buy CNN! Take over US media! I'm sorry for the people, but not for those who still think they can make profit out of war. Ann de Boer
Subj:
Catholics in Iraq appeal for sanity
I hope the Arab world will remember that
almost half of all Americans did not vote for George Bush, and it is
still completely questionable whether he even won the office, or stole
it. If what he is doing is "American" then I am embarrassed
to be an American. To the people of Iraq - I am so sorry this is
happening!! We who are against this war (and there are many!!) are
protesting and praying daily for this to end. It is wrong, we think
so, and the world thinks so. May this be over now, so can remember to
live in peace with each other - I pray you can forgive our country's
actions, as they are really only the actions of a few power/oil/war
hungry leaders, and those who have been duped into believing them. God
is greater than us all. - Amy
Graves Sedona, AZ.
Editor: Amy, the whole world knows what you said. News and photos of US anti-war demonstrations have been published in almost all Arab newspapers and shown on Arab TV station. People all over the world know that most Americans are peaceful and good people.
Dear Editor,
Canadian Students Chain Themselves to U.S. Consulate Four Vancouver students chained themselves to the doors of the U.S. consulate the morning of Tuesday April 1st in protest of the U.S. Imperialist war on Iraq.They locked themselves to the door handles with steel chain wrapped tightly around their necks and waists secured with pad locks and bike locks. The group, Mobilization Opposed To
Aggression On Baghdad (MOAB), released a statement in which they
condemned the U.S. for "shredding international law to initiate an
unjust, unilateral war on Iraq." They stated that this war "is
about control of the second largest oil reserves on the planet."
The group also expressed fear that the war will be used "as a
justification for the further destruction of the Palestinian
People" and cited Israel's intensification of illegal land grabs on
Palestinian soil. One of the students, Macdonald Stainsby, compared the
rounding up of asylum seekers in the U.S. under the guise of
"Operation Liberty Shield" to the Nazi roundups of Jews and
Communists in the late 30's."We know from recent history what the
consequences of silence can be" said Stainsby. In their statement
the students called on "all people of good conscience" to
engage in "creative resistance to the racist war in North America
and abroad." To arrange an interview with the students
please contact their Media Liaison Mia Amir at 604-433-4489 or miaspora@yahoo.ca. To
view pictures of the lock-down go to http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/40274.php.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23490-2003Apr3?language=printer washingtonpost.com Sent by Al-Hewar
Kerry Angers GOP in Calling For 'Regime Change' in U.S. By Dan Balz Friday, April 4, 2003; Page A10 Republicans jumped on Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) yesterday in the wake of reports that the Democratic presidential candidate had told a New Hampshire audience that "we need a regime change in the United States." Kerry, who supported the resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war against Iraq but was sharply critical of the way Bush handled the diplomacy before the war, had largely refrained from criticism since U.S. troops launched their operations March 19. But according to newspaper accounts, the Massachusetts senator delivered a stinging rebuke Wednesday during a campaign trip. Kerry said that, after talking to foreign diplomats and world leaders recently, he had concluded that "it will take a new president" to repair the damage Bush has done because other leaders are not "going to trust this president, no matter what." "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States," Kerry said. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) led the chorus of GOP critics who attacked Kerry for challenging Bush during wartime. "Senator Kerry's remark, equating regime change in Iraq with regime change in the United States, is not what we need at this time," Hastert said. "What we need is for this nation to pull together, to support our troops and to support our commander in chief." Democrats pointed out that during the Kosovo air campaign, both Hastert and DeLay criticized President Bill Clinton. DeLay was quoted in an interview with The Washington Post as saying, "We have a president I don't trust, who has proven my reason for not trusting him: He had no plan. We have a civil war that was falsely described as a huge humanitarian problem, when in comparison to other places, it was nothing." Kerry spokesman Robert Gibbs responded to GOP criticism by saying: "Clearly, Senator Kerry intended no disrespect or lack of support for our commander in chief during wartime, but the point of this campaign is, obviously, to change the administration of this government. And unlike many of his Republican critics, Senator Kerry has worn the uniform, served his country, seen combat, so he'd just as soon skip their lectures about supporting our troops."
How could GW Bush be more effectively spending his country's coffers? See below for some answers..... Jason -- what could $75 billion buy? Find out at: http://www.clamormagazine.org/warbuys.html
Dear Sir, Why do You not show the pictures of those hundreds of gased Kurdi civilians but keep showing photos of Iraqi children with bandages on their wounds? The Kurds were killed without any warning. Saddam knew for months that war is not going to be avoided but he and his government didn't do anything to evacuate or otherwise try to protect children and civilians. Did he ask for help from the neighboring Arab countries for that? Tuomo Niemelä Editor: We cover current events. The incident you are talking about was in 1988. Yes, he asked for help. According to the Arab League Charter, if any Arab state is attacked all other Arab states should help it. But nobody seems to dare to enter into a confrontation against the United States.
Salaam aleikum, I found a short article mentioning the presence in Iraq of Israel special forces. Have you any information on this and if yes, was that published on your website? Thank you for your time. Salaam. http://www.janes.com/regional_news/africa_middle_east/news_briefs/fr020927_01.shtml
Dear America: This is a difficult letter
to write, because I'm no longer sure who you are.
I thought I knew you: We'd become well
acquainted over the past 55 years. You were the Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck comic books I read in the late 1940s. You were the music I
sang and danced to: the Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, the
Platters, Elvis. You were a ton of fun.
You wrote some of my favorite books. You
created Huckleberry Finn, and Hawkeye, and Beth and Jo in "Little
Women," courageous in their different ways. Later, you were my
beloved Thoreau, father of environmentalism, witness to individual
conscience; and Walt Whitman, singer of the great Republic; and Emily
Dickinson, keeper of the private soul. Even later, you were the
amazing trio, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, who traced the dark
labyrinths of your hidden heart. You were Sinclair Lewis and Arthur
Miller, who, with their own American idealism, went after the sham in
you, because they thought you could do better.
You were Marlon Brando in "On The
Waterfront," you were Humphrey Bogart in "Key Largo,"
you were Lillian Gish in "Night of the Hunter." You stood up
for freedom, honesty and justice; you protected the innocent. I
believed most of that. I think you did, too. It seemed true at the
time.
I won't go into the
reasons why I think your recent Iraqi adventures have been - taking
the long view - an ill-advised tactical error. Let's talk, then, not
about what you're doing to other people, but about what you're doing
to yourselves.
You're gutting the constitution. Already
your home can be entered without your knowledge or permission, you can
be snatched away and incarcerated without cause, your mail can be
spied on, your private records searched. I know you've been told all
this is for your own safety and protection, but think about it for a
minute. Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn't used to be
easily frightened.
You're running up a record level of debt.
Keep spending at this rate and pretty soon you won't be able to afford
any big military adventures. Either that or you'll go the way of the
Soviet Union: lots of tanks, but no air conditioning. That will make
folks very cross. They'll be even crosser when they can't take a
shower because your short-sighted bulldozing of environmental
protections has dirtied most of the water and dried up the rest. Then
things will get hot and dirty indeed.
If you proceed much further down the
slippery slope, people around the world will stop admiring the good
things about you. They'll decide that your city upon the hill is a
slum and your democracy is a sham, and therefore you have no business
trying to impose your sullied vision on them. They'll think you've
abandoned the rule of law. They'll think you've fouled your own nest.
The British used to have a myth about King
Arthur. He wasn't dead, but sleeping in a cave, it was said; in the
country's hour of greatest peril, he would return. You, too, have
great spirits of the past you may call upon: men and women of courage,
of conscience, of prescience. Summon them now, to stand with you, to
inspire you, to defend the best in you. You need them.
- from an essay by Margaret Atwood in The
Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Sent by Fred Van Leeuwen
Hi Id like to submit my peace rally photos. I took these photos about anti-war demonstrations http://futureassassin.com/war/ on March 20 in Vancouver BC Canada. If you use them could you please download them and use them on your server instead of linking to my server as I have limited bandwidth. Since I took the photos and own the rights to them I give you permission to use them on your website.
Regards Arek Halusko Editor: Thanks Arek. I'll post them on the Peace Activists section, later.
I have been looking for your English language website for sometime. I found the (new?) website yesterday and passed it onto US and Australian friends. I note your response to some letters is to say that you are not related to Al Jazeera TV. Can you say what your relationship is? I see that a number of Australians have written to your website. I can confirm that many Australians are opposed to war. In mid February about one million Australians ( 5% of our population) marched against the war. This was the biggest demonstration in our history. Next weekend (Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter) should see an equally massive demonstration against the war. Unfortunately we have an extremely conservative government in power. The war does not have bipartisan support. It is the first time in our history that Australian troops have gone to war without such bipartisan report. Regards Brian Kenny PS: I'll try to write more fully. It is good to find a source of news and opinion that shows the point of view of the Arab world.u
Tune in to your news daily and especially
appreciate news of the Middle East conflicts. While I find no
excuse for wars in this day and age of communication, people like
Saddam must be reigned in. With so many organizations advocating
against brutality find it difficult to understand why so much is going
on in the world. With so much of the world against Saddam's
venue wonder why, because of his love of his country - and should be
of his countrymen - not have stood down. Far too many lives are
being lost.
If the reason for the war is really oil
then I fear that Canada, being the third largest supplier to the U.S.
may not be far down the line for attack. However, they will not
be able to use brutality by Government or WMD as an excuse.
Further, hope that one day soon the U.S.
is not allowed to make decisions for the rest of the world. It
was very convenient and self-serving to opt out of Kyoto and
International War Crimes. I mostly hope that no WMD are found in
Iraq to prove that Bush's attack was purely for oil!
Thanks for the opportunity to 'spout off'.
Pepper
The Chemonics International Co in
Washington DC is compiling a list of Companies who wish to apply for
infrastructure
contract work in Iraq,and have written to
Israeli Companies stating they would be happy to include them among
the 11 members of the long term task force which they are formulating.
Do other Middle Eastern Countries do
contract work for Chemonics International,in which case are they
subscribing to the American economy.
Sincere Regards
John D Hall
after the guns are silent who is going to
clean up all that depleated uranium? will we (americans ) try to tell
everone it's safe? all that was left from the first war and now this.
someone should stand up and make people accountable.
L. Duffey
I'm glad you're up and running. Not
everybody in this country thinks the war is a good idea. You wouldn't
know that by looking at the major media. C.H.
Carl Horkowitz
I always look for alternative information
in Internet, and I think there aren´t enough press in Spanish.
There are nearly 700.000.000 millions of persons who live in spanish
(nearly 40.000.000 in EEUU) , and i think it would be good for
aljazeerah to have an spanish edition. People in South America know
very well the consecuences of USA imperialism, and those who had been
a good education (the less of them) can read aljazeerah, but what
happens with those who haven´t got an expensive education and don´t
speak english or arab?
My english is not as good as i would like, but i know lot of people, some journalists that could translate aljazeera from english to spanish. Have you ever thought about an Aljazeerah in spanish? Marisol Editor: I welcome this suggestion. Any volunteer translators are welcome. If there are enough people to commit to this effort, it will happen.
Dear
Friends at CNN. Hilmi Salem
The Editor, Al Jazeerah Sir, Congratulations on a superb effort. For your readers, a ditty and some worldwide anti-war boycott news.
Yankee Doodle, send them up Yankee Doodle went to town On all the little kiddies Stuck a feather in his hat and called them his en-e-mies. Yankee Doodle keep it up, you would-be eastern grandee, mind girls’ feet and watch your step, and with the bombs be handy. Yankee Doodle send them up as high as kites on candy those pretty boys in airforce blue and with the bombs so handy. Yankee Doodle send them up, you oily Texas dandy, send fireworks at market time, then with the mike be handy. Yankee Doodle, shock and awe? And then your great idea? So they’ll all grow up loving you and help you bomb Korea? Yankee Doodle lock them up in cages down in Cuba for they’ve no shoes or uniforms and don’t respect Geneva. Yankee Doodle, we love you, most diggers cheer this slaughter, as Kilroy does his Irish jig and Basra calls for water. Yankee Doodle keep it up and please send lots more armour, with bunker-busting DU shells to sterilize the water. Yankee Doodle, keep it up, it’s the grandest show in town. We love you as you waltz to hell and the kiddies all fall down. Yankee Doodle, teach them how to love their Uncle Sam, this nation half of children, like you taught poor Vietnam. Yankee Doodle, loft it up, your old blood-spangled banner. Old Gory lights arabian nights, In the usual Yankee manner. Yankee Doodle, without you, they’ve danced five thousand years, now you bring bouquets of doodle bombs, and you wonder at their tears? Yankee Doodle keep your hat and your two-ton petrol pony. I’ll buy from Jacques and boycott you, and Donald’s macaroni.
Peter Ravenscroft. 31st March, 2003, Written as the bombs fell on the people of Iraq. Reprint freely, improve, edit, burn, claim you wrote it, send hate mail, compliment or ignore, I don’t care, now. Just, as and where you can, boycott the USA, Britain, Australia and Poland, please, folks. For the lost and injured kids of Iraq, and in defence of the kids of the next target country. As of 2 April, 2003, there were anti-US boycott calls from the following: the US, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Chile, Brasil, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. 39 countries, plus some, almost all issued independently of each other. Bushmonkey? Have you liberated their weapons of mass destruction yet? Regards, Peter Ravenscroft. Samford, Australia.
David Phils A GREAT IQ TEST ON THE IRAQ WAR FROM DANIEL QUINN, THE AUTHOR OF ISHAMAEL ETC. Take the War on Iraq IQ Test Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? 1.Q: What percentage of the world's population does the U.S. have? A: 6% 2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have? A: 50% 3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves? A: Saudi Arabia 4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves? A: Iraq 5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide? A: $900+ billion 6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.? A: 50% 7. Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according the UN? A: 10% (that's about$40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan). 8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II? A: 86 million 9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons? A: Since the early 1980's. 10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own? A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations. 11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran? A: No 12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988? A: 5,000 13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time? A:0 14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam? A: 17million. 15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack? A: No 16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War? A: 35,000 17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ? A: 0 18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front? A: 6,000 19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War? A: 40 tons 20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994? A: 700% 21. Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991? A: 80% 22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self defense? A: No 23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago? A: No 24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2002/3? A: 10,000 25. Q: What percentage of these will be children? A:Over 50% 26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11years 27. Q: Was the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: No 28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: 20 million 29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports? A: 12 years 30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)? A: 38 31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)? A: 131 (that's an increase of345%) 32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions? A: 1.5 million 33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997? A: 750,000 34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq? A:No 35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? A:300 36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems? A:5 37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ? A: Yes 38. Q: Who said that by December 1998, "Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history." A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief. 39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq's post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled? A: 90% 40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in ? A:Yes 41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? A: Over 65 42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990? A: 30+ 44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? A: 8 45. Q:How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got? A: 0 46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got? A: over 10,000 47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? A: the US 48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have? A: Over 400 50. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"? A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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The United States Government will spend more on the military in fiscal year 2003, than all the rest of the countries on Earth combined. Current expenditures are 437 billion and our past obligations are 339 billion, this equals 776 billion. 46% of our Taxes go to the Military Industrial Complex:http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm This figure doesn't even begin to account for all of the off-budget, black projects, homeland security nor the 40+ billion the United States Government will spend on intelligence in 2003.
The full form of the abbreviation WAR is ' We Are Right '. Who are right, the winners or the losers. A COUNTRY IS BURNING. Have a look at some facts 1. USA supported Bin Laden and the Taliban for years, and viewed them as freedom fighters against the Russians? 2. As late as 1998 the US was paying the salary of every single Taliban official in Afghanistan. 3. There is more oil and gas in the Caspian Sea area than in Saudi Arabia, but you need a pipeline through Afghanistan to get the oil out. 4. UNOCAL, a giant American Oil conglomerate, wanted to build a 1000 mile long pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. 5. UNOCAL spent $10,000,000,000 on geological surveys for pipeline construction, and very nicely courted the Taliban for their support in allowing the construction to begin. 6. All of the leading Taliban officials were in Texas negotiating with UNOCAL in 1998. 7. In 1998-1999 the Taliban changed its mind and threw UNOCAL out of the country and awarded the pipeline project to a company from Argentina. 8. John Maresca VP of UNOCAL testified before Congress and said no Pipeline until the Taliban was gone and a more friendly government was established. 9. In 1999-2000 The Taliban became the most evil people in the world. 10. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. 11. On 9/11 WTC disaster occured. Bush goes to war against Afghanistan even though none of the hijackers came from Afghanistan. 12. The Taliban offered to negotiate to turn over Bin Laden if US showed them some proof. US refused; US bombed. 13. US have a new government in Afghanistan. 14. The leader of that government formerly worked for UNOCAL. - Coincidence? 15. Bush appoints a special envoy to represent the US to deal with that new government, who formerly was the "chief consultant to UNOCAL". 16. The Bush family acquired their wealth through oil. 17. Bush's Secretary of Interior was the President of an oil company before going to Washington. 18. George Bush Sr. now works with the "Carlysle Group" specializing in Huge oil investments around the world. - Coincidence? 19. Condoleezza Rice worked for Chevron before going to Washington. 20. Chevron named one of its newest "supertankers" after Condoleezza. 21. Dick Cheney worked for the giant oil conglomerate Haliburton before becoming VP. 22. Haliburton gave Cheney $34,000,000 as a farewell gift when he left Haliburton.
23. Haliburton is in the pipeline construction business. - Mere Coincidence?? 24. There is $6 Trillion dollars worth of oil in the Caspian Sea area. 25. The US government quietly announces Jan 31, 2002 we will support the construction of the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. 26. President Musharref (Pakistan), and Karrzai,(Afghanistan -Unocal) announce agreement to build proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. (australian press) Note:Its a shame on normal muslim rulers who are not able to save muslims lives nor the wealth given to them muslims who are in power can have united front and also can have their combined forces now was the time UN did nothing rather disrobed Iraq and then came the US military to kill muslims, shame on these rulers. Haram, if you unite you can kill this rascals with in no time, why will Allah swt bestow his help on them,,,those who are not helping each other when required, kill these americans and britishers send your troops from syriya jordan and libiya Iran turkey and see what this rascals can do, seek support from malaysia too..indonasia call for jihad..all will surely join try to air lift the jihad warriors..if you wont do until next friday your each kingdom will fall now and then to this rascals hands instead of paying this americans for restoring this hukuma,, you pay muslims to uphold your dignity and honor<< shame on you innocent children being killed. Wassalam
Honest.
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