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Originally Posted by Mr. Cool Ice
I spent 2 years in Afghanistan. Do you want to know what the bulk of American troops are doing there?
1) They are building a pipeline through Afghanistan. They are working to bring the oil from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Central Asia into India where there is a HUGE demand for oil. They can bypass Russia and Iran by doing this.
2) They are guarding poppy fields for the pharmaceutical companies.
What you see on TV of them burning the fields is bull shit and just for show. The little bit of fighting in the mountains is very limited. It's about drugs and oil, nothing more.
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I could have told you that.. The only reason we went into Afghanistan was to secure the Unicol pipeline deal. When George Bush Jr was Governor of Texas he met with the Taliban and had them come to Texas to try to secure a pipeline deal.
He couldn't do it then, yet the guy we put in charge in Afghan as the puppet president from the start was an ex Unicol spokesmen. One of the very first things he did after being put in office was to secure the pipeline deal.