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Topic History of: Now we know why Afghanistan was REALLY invaded .......
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JK2006 |
Yes it's spam; it attaches itself to old threads and sometimes sneaks through the filter which disposes of 99% of them; usually proxy URLs that sneak past. |
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Honey |
It is awfully disappointing when these threads accidentally pop up ten years later and for a split second I think the lovely ITK is back.  |
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veritas |
When have countries ever been invaded for any other reason ??
..perhaps WW2 was a stand out position from the Allies part but the Nazis invaded for profit. |
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Jim |
War for resources: From slander to clarion call
Suddenly, the Pentagon wants us to know about all the resources the U.S. can acquire by invading countries
Reading this week's New York Times headline — "U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan" — many probably wondered why this information was being presented as "news" in 2010. After all, humanity has long been aware of the country's vast natural resources. As Mother Jones magazine's James Ridgeway said after recalling previous public accounts of the ore deposits, "This 'discovery' in fact is ancient history tracing back to the times of Marco Polo."
The intrigue in the Times' dispatch, then, is not Afghanistan's "huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals" that the paper quotes Pentagon officials gushing about — it is the gushing itself. Indeed, the real question is: What would prompt the government to portray well-known geology as some sort of blockbuster revelation?
continued: www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/index.htm...esources_afghanistan |
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In The Know |
Both of the above explain WHY the Yankers were so keen to invade and instal a puppet government ? |
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