Afghanistan

If it was all about oil and gas pipelines, why aren't they building them?

Probably Bush's too busy with the election stuff right now, but he'll keep an eye on the oil deal

Uh...a war
There's a war going on and it does take money to build the piple line and dig for the gas.

Google Afganistan pipeline.

Check it out for yourself.

Looks like the election campaign's have begun early on both sides of the pacific. Let's hope the right wing pricks get hammered both here and there. What a lead in to next christmas that would be.

Pistoff

I'm in no doubt getting oil and gas from the Caspian littoral states out to the Arabian sea via Afghanistan had a lot to do with the invasion of that country. But we've had the war, the Taliban are gone. American troops control the line of the proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan via Herat and Kandahar. Why aren't we building it?

The taliban are not gone. Just days a go a canadian solider in Kabul was killed in a suicide bombing. Threats were sent afterwards stating it was 'only the begining'. Many recent events in Afghanistan prove the taliban is very much in existence.
The land in Afghanistan is littered with landmines, terrorists and transportation nightmares. There a million reasons why oil and gas production has not begun breaking ground. That doesn't mean the paper work hasn't been filed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3432587.stm

Its more than the paperwork done:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/uclicktext/20040108/cm_ucru/pipedreams

Yup!

The Plan
Is it just a coincidence?

"The Karzai government in Kabul--headed by a former consultant to Unocal, the oil company that originally pitched TAP to the Taliban in 1995--can't possibly make good on its assurance."

Nothing else matters to the Neo Fascists, the PNAC crowd except that pipleline. That's what the troops are dying and getting maimed for. It makes me wonder if those troops now that.

Does anyone really think that there will be any other person other than Karzai that will be elected Pres. of Afghanistan?

Mr O B Laden?

Osama
If his name was on the ballot he would probably win.

I bet the Reynolds company loves you, Pistoff.

I'm suprised the US hasn't already set up a puppet government.
Most likely, who ever is on that ballot will be pre-approved by our government though. The Bush administration can't afford to have someone elected taht they don't have some sort of sway over. And certanitly they don't want an extremist running the country. Who ever it is will need US backing, but will the people of Afghanistan chose someone who is US backed?
Most likely the same troubles will pop up in Iraq.