tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post6318093065663523853..comments2024-01-25T12:33:03.851+10:30Comments on Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is: GEORGE TENET’S BOOK PROVIDES MORE PROOF U.S. PLANNED WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN BEFORE 9/11Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-48445381717311604262007-05-28T09:42:00.000+09:302007-05-28T09:42:00.000+09:30Right again sunshine! Conoco-Phillips was more tha...Right again sunshine! Conoco-Phillips was more than happy that the Australian government were able to secure the Timor Gap gas resources from the Timorese people. It was going to be so much more difficult to persuade the Indonesians to hand it over.<BR/><BR/>There are now several East Timorese leaders that now have well fattened bank accounts.Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-34064659728089149502007-05-28T09:04:00.000+09:302007-05-28T09:04:00.000+09:30Yes similar to what Howard did in Timor. He just w...Yes similar to what Howard did in Timor. He just went there to plunder their gas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-13764062259497201922007-05-28T08:59:00.000+09:302007-05-28T08:59:00.000+09:30It certainly was a contingency plan sunshine. It w...It certainly was a contingency plan sunshine. It was contingent on two things; the Taliban either accepting ‘a carpet of gold’ in exchange for US oil companies building a pipeline across Afghanistan or ‘a carpet of bombs’ if the Taliban failed to agree with US terms. Turns out the Taliban didn’t agree with US terms, so then the plan became contingent on the second thing; a casus belli for the US to attack Afghanistan. 11 September 2001 conveniently came along providing the casus belli to attack Afghanistan – just as soon as the finger of blame was pointed to al Qaeda (who just happened to be in Afghanistan); which was just moments after the ‘attacks’.<BR/><BR/>The problem with the assertion that there was a ‘contingency plan’ in place before 9/11 is that the US has always denied that there was any such plan before 9/11.<BR/><BR/>So, not only are you right sunshine, there was a contingency plan in place just waiting for a casu belli, but the Bush administration proved themselves once again to be liars.Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-82898389506645684332007-05-27T20:51:00.000+09:302007-05-27T20:51:00.000+09:30It's called a contingency plan Damian.It's called a contingency plan Damian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com