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so i'm assuming no one bothered to read the background info on the Commission?
There really is no discussion here, 7 years after the fact.
You can bicker over semantics, and split hairs, and make distract yourselves with statistics; that's not the issue.
it was an inside job and you're a holding back the human species if you think otherwise.
Thomas Kean, Chairman of the Commission
Before taking his current
position, Thomas Kean
was a director and part
owner of Amerada Hess, a
company that maintained a
partnership with Delta Oil
of Saudi Arabia. Since that
is the home country for
most of the alleged 9/11
hijackers, and since the Bush family has
close business ties to Saudi elites, many
people would think that this is already a
serious conflict of interest.
Together with UNOCAL, Delta Oil in the
mid-1990s began negotiating deals with
Central Asian governments, looking to
acquire pipeline rights out of the world's richest
remaining store of undeveloped oil fields.
The favored plan was to get the oil to a port
in Pakistan - meaning, through Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan. The Taliban were courted
in the late 1990s by a number of American
oil projects, including UNOCAL’s. But their
hardline behavior ruined their international
image, and the companies backed off.
When the Bush administration came to power
in 2001, it opened new pipeline negotiations
with the the Taliban. Despite awards to
Afghanistan of $143 million in U.S. aid in the
first half of 2001, the Taliban refused to
accept the U.S. proposal of a joint government
with the Northern Alliance. They broke
off the back-channel Berlin talks in June. At
the time, a U.S. representative promised that
the Taliban had a choice between “a carpet of
gold or a carpet of bombs.”
The White House has admitted that documents
placed on Bush’s desk on Sept. 9, 2001
detailed a plan for attacking Afghanistan by
mid-Oct. 2001. Significant deployments to
the region of U.S. and British forces were
already underway. All that was missing for an
invasion was the casus belli - the cause for
hostilities. That arrived two days later, in
New York, in the form of the 9/11 attacks.
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that's just one of them. You can toss in a lawyer representing a firm that was once retained by Enron, a Republican Sen. turned lawyer,
of the Seattle firm of Preston, Gates and Ellis, which counts among its clients both Delta Air Lines and the Boeing Employees’ Credit Union. ..it goes on...
the conflicts of interest are laughable. if you think these people would give a fair and just report on the happenings, you're off your rocker.
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