FAT-N-HYPE 9/11
Posted on 06/28/2004 4:14:09 PM PDT by MadIvan
Once again, Stein hits a homerun. This one will go out to all on my email list.
BTTT!
FAT-N-HYPE 9/11
Heheheh... :o)
Actually, Clinton first proposed the gas pipeline across Afghanistan. Bush more or less endorsed the idea but supported the idea that the pipeline not cross Afghanistan but but laid in the gulf.
The Unocal plan was indeed defunct long before 9/11. The Argentines tried to resurrect it, also to no avail. Unocal spent several years schmoozing the Talibs hoping to interest them in the project, but what Unocal, or any investor, needed was peace and a smidgen of sanity and that was a bridge too far. So they moved on to more fertile soil elsewhere.
The Afghans, Paks, and Turkmenistan have all tried to interest someone, anyone, in building the pipeline since the war, but none of them can promise peace or sanity any more than could the Talibs. So there it rests probably for another decade.
I can't comment on Karzai's employment with Unocal, it wouldn't surprise me, what else is an educated, urbane, world-wise man in Talib Afghanistan going to do for a living; your choices would be pretty limited. Sell your services as a war-lord, smuggle opium, run guns, run errands for Saddam and Osama, or consult for Unocal. If Karzai wasn't consulting for Unocal he was presumably honorably engaged in one of the other pursuits.
FMCDH(BITS)
His review of Clinton's book was great too.
And the just revenge is that those "stupid Americans" Tuned in the NBCABCCBSMTVetal Morning Shows this morning, which were all set to lead with the "record attendance for Fahrenheit 911" , only to see the triumph of Bush and Blair preempt bloat-boy's moment of glory with the story of the Iraqi autonomy. Touche Mr. President.
MadIvan, it has been great to see you around again! I am exceedingly excited to have you post Steyn in his entirety!
What's to like?
I spent this afternoon listening to supporters of Michael Moore attempting to defend him and this movie on various talk shows. They are implacable in their belief that Bush is stupid, but has planned everything dasterdly that his administration has done, but is the dupe of the Saudis, the Zionists, Big Oil... They can not be reasoned with anymore than one can reason with those who believe in UFOs.
bump for later...
Touche indeed. Soooo sweet.
LOL!
I like that line. It seems to me it fits Hanoi John too. You know him, the "multi-millionaire Democrat man of the people".
(Made his money the "old fashioned way" too. He married it. LOL)
BTTT
Wait a minute!! Are you implying that Michael Moore is actually a space alien? MY god, that explains everything! I knew his eyes were too close together!
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