Guess what?

"In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan.

From "U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION
FEBRUARY 12, 1998:

The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company... As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place."

Two researches concluded this: "They affirm that until August [2001], the US government saw the Taliban regime "as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central Asia" from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. Until now, says the book, "the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that."

And this: "But, confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, "this rationale of energy security changed into a military one", the authors claim.

"At one moment during the negotiations, the US representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs,'" Brisard said in an interview in Paris."

Guess what? Jane's Defense reports that India Joined US led plan against Afghanistan in March 2001: "India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime."

Guess what? BBC reports that American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JULY 2001: "A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks. 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.

The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah. Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place."

Guess what? MSNBC reports that Afghanistan war plans were on Bush's desk on 9/9/2001: "President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. ... The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity."

Then came 9/11... Guess what happened on 27 December 2002? This: "An agreement has been signed in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, paving the way for construction of a gas pipeline from the Central Asian republic through Afghanistan to Pakistan.

The building of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline has been under discussion for some years but plans have been held up by Afghanistan's unstable political situation."

Obama - The Man of Peace?

Today president Obama won the Nobel peace prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples... The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons."

First of all, I find the Nobel committee to be horribly wrong on almost every time they give the peace prize, but this is getting pretty over-the-top. Since the topic is peace, let me question some of the actions of president Obama.

1) Obama intends to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending in tens of thousands of more troops. Make war for peace, huh?

2) Newly released Pentagon statistics show that in both Iraq and Afghanistan the number of armed contractors is rising. The DoD says it sees “similar dependence on contractors in future.”

3) To meet June deadline, US and Iraqis redraw city borders...Meaning the troops are no longer in cities, because the Iraqi & US military REDREW the city limits

4) "President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections." Once again, it is Israel who threatens Iran (who, by the way, does not have nukes or the capability to make them), not the other way around.

5) At this time it seems that there won't be missile shield in Poland, but "With the end of this land based system Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates have stressed that the coverage gap would be replaced by shorter ranged systems including those based on U.S. Navy ships." And AGAIN, the winners are the defence contractors such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. The so called "Polish missile crisis" is far from being over.

6) Since Obama took power, he's been bombing the living daylights out of Pakistan. CIA drones hammer the tribal areas almost every single day. You call that peace? Oh and now Blackwater/Xe is operating in Pakistan.

7) The Honduras coup happened on Obama's watch. Incidently, John Perkins has some inside info on this: "Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy."

8) The Obama adminstration & the intelligence section tried to orchestrate a color revolution ( CIA's people power coup) in Iran. As Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration) points out: "The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this."

Probably the list would go on and on. The point is, Obama is not the man world thinks he is. He is a puppet of the Trilateral commission and the soft power CIA intelligence front. He is completely dominated by the interests on Wall Street and the City of London along with the military-industrial-complex.Finally, I quote dr. Roberts: "It requires total blindness not to see this."