U.S. majors consider Balkan pipeline-project head "oil from Bulgaria to Albania via Macedonia"

Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | Friday February 15, 7:22 am Eastern Time | Reuters

[okie01]

"This is the real reason Clinton went to war for in Kosovo..."

It's a popular notion, I'll grant. But how do you figure? Neither Kosovo nor Serbia is on the route.

The pipeline project did not require any war in Kosovo. Instead, it was impeachment, the Cox Report and Juanita Broaddrick, plus Mad Maddie's hang-ups, that required the war in Kosovo.

Don't complicate the issue any more than it needs to be.

[Spar]

On this forum an article was posted in which a KFOR general proclaimed that they would do everything possible to protect the energy corridors but I do not remember the link.

[Spar]

On this forum an article was posted in which a KFOR general proclaimed that they would do everything possible to protect the energy corridors but I do not remember the link.

[okie01]

"...but I do not remember the link."

Oh.

[timestax]

D I T T O!!

[Spar]

That is why I bumped Hamiltonian, since it was his post. Hold your "oh" till then.

[LN2Campy]

I thought it was all about the mines in Trepcka (sp?) -- but this makes PERFECT sense.

Halliburton made a lot of bucks building Bondsteel, too.

[AIBC]

Re: The pipeline project did not require any war in Kosovo. This is totally incorrect. The pipeline goes through the heart of Kosovo which was part of Yugoslavia under Miloshevich. The war was a result of this project and had nothing to do with civil rights and democracy, otherwise we should have bombed Sudan and Liberia where true attrocities were carried out against civillians in a much larger scale.The double standards were obvious then and are obvious now. We saw endless lines of weeping Albs courtesy of CNN and Amanpor, the wife of little Rubin who was under Clinkton back then. The propaganda was mind-boggling. The lies that came out of this agency (CNN) completely overwhelmed any sound reasoning in the USA. For comparison just think of how many thousands people have we seen after the 9/11 attacks? Did we see lines of weeping people (some actually giggling in the background)? No. When terror strikes you don't have time to stage weeping sessions in front of a camera. And what were the crimes? Rapes. Which cannot be proven. I was told by Clinkton that the bombings were justified because there were more than 100,000 killed civillians in mass graves. I was told there were satellite photos with the locations of these graves. All was needed id to go in there and produce the proves. Well, we went in there and what did we produced. Nothing of what was used to justify this absolutely adventurous and counter productive campaign. Yes there was a war there and there were victims, some of which civillians. There was a war after all. You had bands of Muslim mercenaries co-mingled with Albanian drug and prostitute trafficers. And the USA went to shoulder-to-shoulder with Osama's agents in that campaign. The bombing of Yugoslavia was the biggest injustice done by the USA against a sovereign Christian country and an ally. The bombings destroyed civillian targets such as refineries, bridges, water plants, schools, hospitals, automobile plants and other industrial targets in order to create unemployment, diseases and public pressure in general. Very little damage was done to the army which should have been the target. Remember the cluster bombs in Nish? Cluster bombs in the centre of a densely populated city? All in the name of humanity? Barf! Clinton, Albright and Clark should be sued as war criminals. Their actions had nothing to do with humanity. They have promoted drug-dealing, arm trade and prostitution in Europe and in doing so went along with the wishes of the Arab world who have financed the insurgency in Yugoslavia. This war is the only major reason why America is now disliked in Europe

[XBob]

Youall are mostly right about the reason for xlinton's war in Yugoslavia. xlinton wanted distraction, but the Caspian pipeline(s) would provide the support of the power brokers for the war (just as the Caspian pipeline route through Afghanistan provided the power brokers support for Bush's war in Afghanistan).

However, there is a modified pipeline route which was the main reason to out Milosovich - it went through Bosnia, and then through Croatia, and on to Trieste (city state at the northern tip of the Adriatic and Italy) where the pipeline would tie into the European pipelines at the port of Trieste, where it could also be shipped.

Croatia was compliant, and no problem, Bosnia and Rumania were bought off - but Milosovich was adamant - and the power brokers wouldn't support the war/pipeline with Milosovec still in charge. He was too wild a card and had to be toppled. But he couldn't be toppled, he had to firm a control, and Kosovo became the unwitting/unwilling pawn in the war which was used to oust Milosovich.

In fact, Milosovich was such a pain that he is now in jail, unlike most evil dictators, who are bought off and retire to 'Argentina' or someplace on a nice 'pension'.

[XBob]

this jog down through the mulim territories could be the payoff for cooperating, but now that we aren't getting cooperation, they could be going back to the original plan, plus they have already approved and funded one Caspian pipeline to the Medeteranian through Turkey, and that is helping keep Turkey on our side.

[XBob]

Askel5;Nunya Bidness;
see my additions

Prodigal,

My new posts may shed some lite on your link in #15.

[nunya bidness]

Interesting. Thanks.

All the deleted comments makes me miss BlackJade. And now OKCSubmariner.

[XBob]

are youall gone?