... and why countries like Rwanda and Zimbabwe were not worth bothering with !

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Afghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits.

A joint team from the Pentagon, US Geological Service and USAID has calculated Afghanistan's mineral deposits are worth at least $900bn.

Geological surveys discovered large quantities of iron and copper as well as valuable deposits of lithium.

More - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/10311752.stm

As far as I know this is very old "news". The "geological surveys" are russian reports from the 60s, discovered by the US soldiers in 2004.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/browse.cfm?sec=7&cat=83

paguntaka.org/2009/04/05/afghanistan-loo...ation-iron-ore-mine/

Yes, "[g]eologists have known for decades that Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth" but they're reminding us now because we are, evidently, "war-fatigued" and need encouraging.

Read the AP report: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_bi_ge...an_mineral_treasures

Both of the above explain WHY the Yankers were so keen to invade and instal a puppet government ?

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

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.

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.

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.