A Fisking of the Afghan Pipeline Conspriacy Theory in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"

Free Republic | July 26, 2003 | Shermy

[dirtboy]

Outstanding. Compare the Unocal pipeline theory to the AMBO pipeline planned to run through the Balkans - there is no comparision.

[dirtboy]

FAHRENHEIT 9/11: "Afghanistan signed the agreement to build a pipeline through its country carrying natural gas from the Caspian Sea."

This crap just makes me seethe. This one doesn't even depend upon the meaning of the word "the".

[Shermy]

Ping.

[randog]

"Oh, sure, Moore stretches the truth to make his point, but I think it's important that everyone sees the movie."

</leftist logic>

[marron]

Outstanding. Moore is not just obnoxious, he is a liar. As is the better dressed but no less mendacious Wilson.

Excellent work.

[JerseyHighlander]

Bump. I've been interrupted need to finish this later, but I read all of those FR threads back then too, your writing here is spot on. Brilliant.

[marron]

Notice how in Moore's world, oil companies "conspire" to pump oil?

[baseballmom]

Great job, Shermy.

Bookmarked and bumped.

[okie01]

So, Michael Moore isn't really lying. He's just being dishonest...

[Askel5]

It's a pity Moore didn't investigate more closely the drug connections.

Little things ... like our opting to build a landbridge to the 'stans instead of liberating Kabul for Christmas might make a lot more sense.

[Askel5]

Excellent job, Shermy. I'll need a little more time to take it all in.

Thanks again for the heads-up, Dirtboy. Hope Hamiltonian shows up to give us his take.

[gubamyster]

Good job on running this down.

[Shermy]

here's one for you.

[Steve Van Doorn]

You might be interested in this

[Interesse]

Then again it’s not necessary to be a fan of Moore’s for the strategic implications to be worthy of study:

Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and Central Asia
by Mr. Lester W. Grau (Lt.Col. Retd.), Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Military Review May-June 2001

http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/hydrocarbons/hydrocarbons.htm

Hardly a looney-tunes source.

[metesky]

Welcome to Free Republic.

How come you newbies always find an old thread to resurrect? Isn't there anything current that interests you or what?

[dirtboy]

How come you newbies always find an old thread to resurrect?

They're about as subtle as Rosie at a Chinese buffet.

[Interesse]

But what has whether or not one is a ‘newbie’ (an incestuous little in-group term if ever there was one) or his imagined behaviour at a Chinese Buffet, (is that one of those feeding trough thingies the hoit poloi swarm at?), got to do with the topic?

But perhaps someone will actually alight on this thread and find the reference useful, in which case my purpose will have been achieved.

As for the rest; “Where ignorance is bliss ‘tis folly to be wise.”

[dirtboy]

But perhaps someone will actually alight on this thread and find the reference useful, in which case my purpose will have been achieved.

We've been discussing the geopolitical aspects of Caspian Oil for many years. You're rather late to the party, newb.