posted on October 4, 2002 11:52:35 AM new
Did you know Karzai is a former Unocal employee?
[quote]The long-standing association of members of the Bush administration with international oil and gas cartels is well known. The Bush family acquired its wealth through its Texas links with the oil industry, including the omnipresent UNOCAL. George Bush, Senior, has links with the Carlysle Group specialising in global investments in oil and natural gas. Dick Cheney worked for the giant oil conglomerate Haliburton before he became vice-president. Haliburton has major interests in the construction of oil and gas pipelines. Condoleezza Rice worked for the oil giant Chevron before she moved to Washington as National Security Adviser. Zalmay Khalizad, who is now the American special envoy to Afghanistan, was earlier chief consultant for UNOCAL.
Khalizad has been accused of applying undue influence to secure the election of Hamid Karzai as president in Afghanistan's Loya Jirga. This should come as no surprise. Karzai himself was a UNOCAL employee not so long ago.
How does Tony Blair fit in? Blair himself was a British Petroleum executive before he took to politics!![/quote]
posted on October 4, 2002 03:07:33 PM new
Beautifully concise, Snowy! Anyone who still doubts that the top positions in American government have been usurped by corporate oil interests and their agenda has his head in the sand.
