We Do Not have Clean Hands in Afghanistan  
(This is necessarily a Long post)

By Karl Schwarz
 
A scant percentage of Americans know that ten days before
President Kennedy was assassinated, he made a speech at Columbia
University, during which he made the following statement:

"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot
to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I
must inform the citizen of this plight."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963


I have given a lot of thought to those words, his assassination,
and what he was prevented from saying to America.

One of the things most noticeable to me since 1963 is how the
Office of the President of the United States has been used to
create and push bogus policy on bogus facts.  History has shown
that the Gulf of Tonkin incident that escalated the Vietnam war
was staged by the United States.  I have repeatedly seen this
nation invent enemies or even arm enemies to create a war in the
future for massive defense spending initiatives.  I have also
seen them implement policies based on lies just so the wealthy
elite can make a lot of money, stained with the blood of dead
American soldiers.  Yes, they also use policy by gun point to
steal what belongs to others and then hold themselves up high as
Great Americans when they are mere thieves.

One of the coming email updates will address how the past three
presidential administrations have undermined our national
security by breaching every level of common sense when
transferring high technology to the People’s Republic of China.

Knowing what I know about Washington, D.C. (my office was there
from 1989 to 1996), when I see our government act I look behind
the scenes for what the real motives were.

Afghanistan—and why our President ordered our military to invade
it—is just such a instance of bogus policy based on outright
lies. I have been following this matter since 1999, well before
the attacks of 9-11, due to someone I met in 1999.  That person
gave me information regarding a lawsuit in Texas and I followed
it because I have been concerned for many years about the energy
policies and foreign policies of this Republic.  What you are
about to read below is not my word against George W. Bush; it is
a matter of public record in our U.S. Courts.

The military training for the invasion of Afghanistan started
less then sixty (60) days after Bush was sworn into office, and
waiting only for 9-11 to happen to justify the invasion.  I also
suspect that the drafting of the Patriot Act and the formation
of Homeland Security started at about the same time.

If I were in a position to appoint the Real 9-11 Commission, it
would start with four energy companies that have electrical
plants in Pakistan, all attendees of the Cheney Energy Task
Force and the list of Foreign and American names found by Sibel
D. Edmonds.  In short, I would see to it that the investigation
started off with those that stood to benefit the most by
attacking Afghanistan and taking over that pipeline and the list
of names found by Sibel Edmonds to determine if they were the
real perpetrators of 9-11 to put such policies into action.  Our
government has in the past, and is right now, suppressing the
truth across the board regarding a wide range of matters that
affect the lives of all of us.  That stops when we as American
citizens put a stop to it.

 

One of the missions of American Patriot Movement will be to
remove the U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and conduct a
full investigation of 9-11 with a panel of ten qualified,
disinterested experts.  Such a panel would also investigate the
Cheney Energy Task Force and every person who participated.  
That is a pretty bold move, but I explain below why I would make
it and open up landmark investigations aimed right at the heart
of the problem.

It is my goal to find out the truth and present it to you. The
major media outlets—television, print, radio and even many
websites— are withholding information and entire stories that
our current government does not want the citizenry to know.  I
look at it this way: - if you or I can find trails and answers,
so can the major media outlets with their much finer
investigative apparatus and greater resources.  The inescapable
conclusion is that those media either do not look, or they know
and do not tell.  I have put many in the media on notice and
they ignore the facts; they look the other way and refuse to put
the truth before their American audience.  It is also an
inescapable conclusion that the U.S. government has withheld
this information as well and for what I believe is cause to
cover up their crimes.

 

What you are about to read (if for the first time) was not heard
from the U.S. government or major media.  It is time all
Americans stand up and demand straight answers to straight
questions about the conduct of certain people in this Republic.

In the email update of November 19th, I introduced you to a
Neocon that I have been watching for quite some time.  In the
email update of November 26th, I introduced you to a chapter in
Neoconned Again that exposes the writings of Mr. Edward Luttwak.
 He is Jewish, ultra-conservative, a military advisor, and was
an advisor to Reagan.  If you stop to ponder that George H.W.
Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others were also involved in the
Reagan Administration, the dots start to connect.

I have been following a court case through the U.S. District
Court, Southern District of Texas since 1999 when I was first
told about it by employees of the corporation involved.  Long
before 9-11 happened, I was looking at this corporation and the
actions surrounding it, and everything I have found suggests I
was on the right trail.  Even after I started making these
matters publicly known in my book One-Way Ticket to Crawford,
Texas, executives of this corporation approached me discreetly
to advise that I was not only on the right trail but the matter
was even more complicated and serious than I knew. U.S.
government officials were engaged in activities they did not
disclose to the American public. Furthermore, those officials
sought to hide information about those activities.

 

Some of you may know that I sent a demand letter to George W.
Bush for the truth about seven hours before the first debate
with John Kerry.  You may not know that I also sent that demand
letter to DNC and the Kerry campaign headquarters at the same
time Bush received it at the White House.  The following is from
that Demand Letter – available at the following link -
http://www.karlschwarz.com/letter.html   You would have to read
that Demand Letter to appreciate that Kerry and DNC just rolled
over and were given the information to rip Bush to shreds.

 

1. I demand as an American citizen that you lift the "gag order"
on Sibel D. Edmonds and let Americans know what foreign names
and what AMERICAN NAMES she uncovered in her FBI translations
that were involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and the
financing of 9-11. Her facts and your "official story" lies do
not add up. Americans demand the truth on that matter before the
election.

2. I demand to know what energy companies were in that Cheney
Energy Task Force meeting and what discussions there were as to
the steps that would be taken to remove the Taliban and Bridas
Corporation as the last remaining obstacle to the United States
controlling the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline. I met that company
in 1999 and have known since then about the Bridas v Unocal, $15
billion interference of contract lawsuit in US District Court,
Southern District of Texas. I also know about the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals decision on September 9, 2003 that upheld the
Bridas $500 million arbitration settlement and the March 22,
2004 denial of Writ of Certiorari at the United States Supreme
Court, Case 03-1018, Turkmenneft v Bridas.

3. I demand to know how many prisoners are being held at GITMO
and other places that are either BRIDAS EMPLOYEES or are persons
that know all about Bridas Corporation and what your
administration did to get control of that Trans-Afghanistan
pipeline.

 

When that letter was received, I got a “thank you” from federal
investigators that suddenly had all kinds of people freaking out
and contacting each other that this had surfaced.  In sending
that demand letter, certain people made the mistake of sending
emails, telephone calls or scheduling meetings to discuss what
they supposedly knew nothing about. In time the truth will be
known by all.


Our freedoms and civil liberties—and effectively the power of
our Constitution—have been altered because of 9-11 and the 9-11
Commission that was suborned by the Bush Administration and
Congress.  They have even covered up the Cheney Energy Task
Force, in which I suspect that it was discussed that the
landlocked oil deals in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
would not be landlocked much longer, since Cheney and Bush
intended to take control of the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, or
TAP as it is called, with military force. 

The TAP was under contract from Turkmenistan, through
Afghanistan, through Pakistan to the ocean with an Argentine oil
company named Bridas Corporation and its parent Bridas
S.A.P.I.C.  On September 9, 2003, Bridas prevailed at the Fifth
Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals on a $500 million interference of
contract lawsuit.  That lawsuit was then taken to the U.S.
Supreme Court and on March 22, 2004 the high court refused to
hear the case or consider reversing the Fifth Circuit decision. 
See US Supreme Court, case 03-1018, State Concern Turkmenneft v.
Bridas S.A.P.I.C., et al.
http://conlaw.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/orders/2003/032204pzor.html
 
Bridas Corporation signed contracts with Turkmenistan in 1992
and 1993, long before our oil companies were welcome in these
former Soviet satellites.  Suddenly, after our presence started
there, the Turkmenistan government issued on order blocking
Bridas from exporting the oil and gas they had found from
Turkmenistan.  That was after Bridas had the foresight to start
laying the groundwork for the pipeline across Afghanistan to get
that oil to markets around the world.  Bridas signed the
agreement with the Taliban in 1996 and in 1997 a full court
press was put on Pakistan and Afghanistan to get the deal into
U.S. hands.  They cut off the north end of that pipeline
(Turkmenistan) and then the south end of that pipeline
(Pakistan) and isolated the remaining element to Afghanistan /
Taliban / Bridas Corporation.

The Bush Administration does not want any American knowing the
truth about what happened in Afghanistan or that we breached a
commercial contract with military force to take over a deal that
was denied to US oil companies, because there was already a deal
in place.  Under the Clinton Administration they upended the
Pakistan government to cut off that part of the Bridas
Corporation deal.  Under the Clinton Administration, they
compelled Turkmenistan to breach its agreements with Bridas,
hence the judgment award of $500 million for interference of
contract.  Clinton does not want you to know what actions were
taken under his administration, and there were many.  

The only remaining obstacle on 9-11 was the remaining agreement
between the Taliban and Bridas Corporation.  The Bush
Administration, Congress, many in our major media, and even the
9-11 Commission and Cheney Energy Task Force all know about
Bridas Corporation because that Argentine oil and gas company
was standing in the way of our US oil companies and UK oil
companies.  The Caspian Basin oil is landlocked and there are
only so many ways to get that oil out of the ground, to the
ocean ports and into your gas tanks or home heating oil tanks.

There is the direct route from Turkmenistan across Iran to the
ocean, but that is not politically popular since the overthrow
of the Shah of Iran many years ago.  There is: 1.) the route
across the Caspian Sea westward, which is extremely costly; and
through Azerbaijan through Turkey to the Mediterranean; and 2.)
from Turkmenistan through Georgia to the Black Sea; and 3.)
through the Ukraine to Europe; and 4.) the Turkmenistan through
Afghanistan and Pakistan to the ocean.  Until one of those
solutions was in place, the holes being drilled into the ground
by British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon and others could not go
anywhere and could not produce revenues for those companies.  A
route northward through Russia would put US oil companies at
risk to changes in Russian politics and the Eastward route
through China was not deemed secure enough since China is soon
to become the second largest user of petroleum in the world
after the United States.
 
In short, the people that were in the Cheney Energy Task Force
were the same people that stood to gain if we attacked
Afghanistan and took the deal away from the Taliban and Bridas
Corporation.  They had spent years getting the deals, invested
billions into drilling and could not turn a dollar of cash flow
or profits until that pipeline was under US control.  That is
Economics 101 and when one considers that there is over $12
trillion in oil at stake and over $3 trillion in natural gas,
that also might be Prime Motive Number 1 for 9-11.  They
probably could have joint ventured that pipeline with Bridas,
but then Argentina would have been raking in billions in hard
cash and not hanging on for dear life as they are now.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security advisor to Carter
and Foreign Intelligence advisor to Reagan even wrote a book
titled The Grand Chessboard , American Primacy and It’s
Geostrategic Imperatives about the grand adventure to take over
the Caspian Basin and its mother lode of oil and natural gas. 
In case you are wondering, Mr. Brzezinski, as well as John
Sununu, Nicholas Brady, James Baker, III and many other former
Reagan and Bush I Administration people are also involved and
have been for years.
http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard  

If you are like me, you see no “geostrategic imperative” about
sending your sons or daughters, wife or husband, off to some far
away place just so a few elite insiders can make billions in oil
in a deal they have conspired to take over for at least the past
three presidential administrations.  That is exactly what they
have done and exactly why they suppressed the investigations
into 9-11 and the Cheney Energy Task Force.

Consider for a moment Condoleezza Rice, who used to sit on the
Chevron Board of Directors at that exact time that Chevron made
the decision to invest billions into oil and gas production in
the Caspian Basin and without any way in sight to get that oil
to ocean ports.  You cannot convince me that Ms. Rice was
unaware of Bridas Corporation and that they had beat US and UK
oil companies to the punch way back in 1992 and 1993 when they
starting signing oil and gas deals with the Turkmenistan
government.  You cannot convince me that Ms Rice was not
completely aware of the geostrategic imperative of that oil
pipeline across Afghanistan.

If I had been a 9-11 Commission member, Ms. Rice would still be
answering questions. I have many serious questions for her, and
I am sure qualified, disinterested investigators would grill
her, too.

The law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw was the firm that kept
Bridas tied up in court at Fifth Circuit and at the U.S. Supreme
Court.  Senior partner of that law firm, while these lawsuits
were in progress, is Richard Ben Veniste, 9-11 Commission
member.  He put on quite a show at the 9-11 Commission while his
law firm kept Bridas tied up in court and not a word said that
someone else had beaten the US and our oil companies to the
contracts.  This is the same law firm that helped Andy Fastow at
Enron set up all of those bogus offshore SPE [Special Purpose
Entity] that were special just to steal from investors. 
http://www.mayerbrown.com/news/index.asp?page=12&archive=Y&nid  

The Republic is now led by a dishonest government that will tell
any lie to carry out any objective where it involves money,
greed and power.  They care not at all what they do in our name
or what they do to undermine our freedoms and what this nation
has always stood for.

I have given much consideration to the steps necessary to remedy
this situation. Here are but a few:


1.         Removal of all troops from Iraq, possible relocation
of those armored divisions to Palestine; and

2.         A series of Executive Orders that would shred the
veils that this government hides behind.  All investigations
would be thrown wide open to public view, and all persons that
deserve to be prosecuted would be prosecuted; and

3.         Dismantling and re-defining of the Patriot Act so
that it focuses on the problems, and not be used as a tool to
undermine the Constitution and our freedoms; and

4.         Fiscal sanity would start by reigning in the wasteful
spending and the National Debt curve would start heading the
other way; and

5.         Possible price controls and definite investigation,
prosecution of market manipulations; and

6.         Barring of AIPAC from Capitol Hill due to them being
a foreign lobbyist that is decidedly pro-Israel; and

7.         Deregulation and breaking up the media monopolies and
other monopolies that threaten this nation and the wellbeing of
each and every one of us.  None of us can make good decisions in
a vacuum or when lies are being spoon fed to us as the news.

8.         Appointment of a 9-11 Commission that would cut
through the D.C. nonsense and get to the bottom of who to
prosecute for the crime of 9-11 against this nation with
possible charges filed against the past 9-11 Commission members
on a wide range of legal issues.

Those would just be for starters to commence the clean up in
D.C.

The State of California, liberal bastion that it is, should
support me for one simple reason.  I would force the 21 energy
companies that plundered the rate payers of California to
reimburse that $5.5 to $7.5 billion they stole and Bush did
nothing about it but dole out miniscule fines compared to the
crime.  That some of those 21 firms are involved in the big
Caspian Basin oil deals is something that deserves a full
investigation regarding the light nature of their fines.  These
are the same firms that sat in on the Cheney Energy Task Force
that the Bush Administration does not want anyone to look into.

I would also have the executives of four energy companies that
were involved in this fleecing of California called before a
legitimate 9-11 Commission for one very simple reason.  They
have electrical power generation plants in Pakistan and we would
get to the bottom of who (what company or what name) was talking
to them about cheap natural gas supplies after the Taliban and
Bridas Corporation had been eliminated from the picture.

I would wager that the name of that person is not Osama bin
Laden.  I would also wager that the person or company knew all
about 9-11 coming.

Neither the Bush administration nor the Clinton Administration
wants Americans to know about Bridas Corporation or that it had
signed major oil and gas development agreements with
Turkmenistan as early as 1992 and 1993.  Bridas then signed
agreements with Pakistan and Afghanistan because the
Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is one of only a few routes to get
the landlocked Caspian Basin oil to the ocean and distributed
around the world.  The folks at Bridas Corporation are not
stupid.  They knew full well that they needed a pipeline to the
ocean to get their part of the oil and gas out to the world
markets.
 

As mentioned earlier, one of the other routes is through the
former Russian state of Georgia.  The leader of that nation,
Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania decided he was against the
oil pipelines coming through his nation and he wound up
assassinated shortly after he made that fateful decision.  Our
press painted the picture that he was killed due to his coziness
with the “West”, but the fact is he was against our pipelines
coming through Georgia.  You do the math. 
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/371/15532_zhvania.html  

Both the Bush and Clinton Administrations do not want Americans
to know that Bridas was interfered with in Turkmenistan and
Pakistan to isolate both the Taliban and Bridas Corporation
regarding the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, a pipeline that we now
control through use of military force in Afghanistan. This
raises serious questions about our true motives in attacking
Afghanistan following 9-11.

We deserve to know why the Bush Administration does not want
Americans to know that Bridas Corporation and their parent
Bridas SAPIC, prevailed in our Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
regarding interference of contract in Turkmenistan.  That
decision was handed down from a US Court on September 9, 2003,
while the 9-11 Commission and Bush Administration were in cover
up mode on 9-11.  Bridas SAPIC v. Government of Turkmenistan, et
al., No, 02-20929, 5th Cir   The original lawsuit in Texas was
Bridas S.A.P.I.C., Bridas Corporation v. Unocal, Turkmenneft, et
al and was a $9 billion interference of contract lawsuit.

http://www.asil.org/ilib/ilib0620.htm

We deserve to know why the Bush Administration does not want
Americans to know about the U.S. Supreme Court decision handed
down on March 22, 2004, while the 9-11 Commission was still
playing “Where’s Waldo?” that the High Court denied the Writ of
Certiorari and let the Fifth Circuit decision stand.  Case
Number 03-1018, Turkmenneft v Bridas S.A.P.I.C.  See Certiorari
Denied at this link: 
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/orders/2003/032204pzor.html


You did not hear of this from Bush, Congress or the 9-11
Commission, and it is time you started asking why you did not
hear about this from them.  You did not hear about this from the
New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, CNN or
FOXNews, but it is about time you started asking why you did not
hear about this from them.  It is time for Americans from every
state start demanding to know why their Senators and US House
representatives have been mum on this matter of what was in
Afghanistan that we now control by use of military force.

How much oil is in the Caspian Basin?  More than 200 billion
barrels, a thirty-year supply and worth over $12 trillion
dollars and climbing every time they increase the price of oil. 
For every day of 30 years, that is just shy of 10 supertankers
full of 2 million barrels of oil.  That is right – 10
supertankers a day for every day the next 30 years.  That is the
single biggest “motive” for any crime I have ever seen and was
the probable reason that 9-11 was engineered so certain parties
could take over that pipeline and that colossal oil and gas
deal.  How much natural gas?  Reportedly as much as 12 trillion
cubic meters, or about $3 trillion worth of natural gas on top
of the vast oil reserves.

It is not my word against Bush and Clinton.  The historical
facts and U.S. court records say all that needs to be said about
the possible taint on our real motives of heading towards
Afghanistan.  If our government's motives for invading
Afghanistan were a lie, just like Iraq has been, the matter
needs to be looked into and charges brought against certain
people.  Just consider that Afghanistan and our actions there
are directly tied to 9-11.  I have met very few people that
think the 9-11 Commission was doing its job rather than covering
it up. 

Did you know about Bridas Corporation?  Did you know about Mr.
Ben Veniste’s law firm being involved the Caspian Basin and
keeping Bridas Corporation tied up in the court case while he
was sitting on the 9-11 Commission?

These 9-11 Commissioners all have vested financial reasons
directly and indirectly to see 9-11 covered up as it was:

Republicans

Thomas Keane, 9-11 Commission chairman, Amerada Hess, tied to
Big Oil and major deals in the Caspian Basin region.  Several
Saudi oil companies are involved and Amerada Hess is in bed with
at least one of them Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia.  Delta Oil was
one of the parties after the Afghanistan pipeline.

Fred Thompson, former Rep governor of Illinois, sits on the
board of FMC and the oil equipment subsidiary doing well in the
Caspian Basin.  Afghanistan pipeline needed to get that
landlocked oil and natural gas to the oceans and huge amounts of
drilling is in progress.

John F. Lehman, John F. Lehman & Company, Rep, former Secretary
of the Navy, now a private equity firm directly involved in Big
Defense, known Neocon.

Fred Fielding, Rep, served on Bush transition team.  Also sits
on a board with Diane Allbaugh, oil industry lobbyist and wife
of Joe Allbaugh, Bush Cheney 2000 campaign manager.  Mr.
Allbaugh was appointed head of FEMA and shortly before the Iraq
Invasion in 2003 left to set up NewBridge Strategies, LLC, a
consultant in getting into the big money Iraq Reconstruction
projects.  NewBridge Strategies, LLC is directly connected to
the following well known and not so well known Republican
entities.



http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/bios.asp  



Joe M. Allbaugh, Chairman and Director
Joe M. Allbaugh is the CEO of The Allbaugh Company, LLC, a
Washington, D.C.-based corporate strategy and counsel firm. A
native of Oklahoma, Joe served as the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President George Bush
until March 2003. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., he was
Chief of Staff to then-Governor Bush of Texas and was the
National Campaign Manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential
campaign.

 

Ed Rogers, Vice Chairman and Director
Ed Rogers is Vice Chairman of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc.,
the firm he founded with Haley Barbour in 1991. From January of
1989 until August of 1991, Ed served as the Deputy Assistant to
the President of the United States and Executive Assistant to
the White House Chief of Staff. Additionally, Ed was the Senior
Deputy to Bush-Quayle Campaign Manager Lee Atwater, from
February of 1987, through the general election in 1988. Ed also
worked in the White House Office of Political Affairs during the
Reagan Administration.

 

Jamal Daniel, Advisory Board Member
Jamal Daniel is a Principal with Crest Investment Company, which
invests in a wide-range of business ventures and is based in
Houston. Prior to his work with Crest Investment, Jamal was a
Director of the Uniteg Investment Company, Inc., providing U.S.
and international investors with comprehensive real estate
services ranging from acquisition and construction to financing
and sales. Additionally, Jamal has extensive experience in
structuring investing in energy and oil and gas projects
throughout the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.



For those of you who do not know this yet, Crest Investments is
where Neal Bush acts as an advisor for $60,000 a year for about
3-4 hours of work a week.  It is that “hogs at the feed trough”
matter I addressed in a prior email.


Democrats

Richard Ben Veniste, senior partner Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. 
Formerly was the lead counsel for Enron and all of those
fraudulent offshore entities set up by Andy Fastow, and Mayer
Brown used to share an office with Enron in Uzbekistan.  Now
Enron is Primus Energy, Cayman Islands, all former Enron
International and former Halliburton people as management. 
Mayer Brown also kept Bridas tied up in court prior to, during
and following 9-11, and while the 9-11 Commission was conducting
a mock investigation.  The name Bridas Corporation never came up
publicly in any Congressional hearings or the 9-11 Commission.

Jamie Gorelick, sits on the board of Schlumberger, firm is
raking in record profits from Caspian Basin business

Tim Roemer, has taken political donations for years while in
Congress from Carlyle Group (Big Defense), Chevron (Big Oil and
heavily involved in the Caspian Basin and Condoleezza Rice as
former Chevron board member), and Van Scoyoc & Associates, major
foreign lobbyist for Big Defense and Big Oil.

 

Any way you cut it, a 7 to 3 majority by people who have direct
conflicts of interests is still a majority on the 9-11
Commission and makes it easy to cover up what really happened.

 

For those Americans that think Clinton – Gore had nothing to do
with the lead up to invading Afghanistan over a pipeline we
could not otherwise get control of, take a look at what Max
Boot, senior fellow Council for Foreign Relations had to say in
an interview with the Christian Science Monitor:  The Neocons
tried for years to get Clinton to act and felt they could get
Gore to act in the event he won in 2000.



“What type of foreign policy/security strategy would an Al Gore
administration have set after Sept. 11? How different would it
have been from the one that emerged from the Bush White House?

I think it's likely that the Gore administration would have
invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. I think it's unlikely they would
have invaded Iraq. That's the big difference.”

 


Gore was under the control of the same special interests that
control George W. Bush.

They had been planning the takeover of that Trans-Afghanistan
Pipeline for many years.  If you understand that the same
wealthy élite special interests own both parties in D.C., you
understand the gravity of the problem.  Bridas started signing
contracts with Turkmenistan, the north end of that pipeline in
1992 and 1993.  That is a provable and documented fact and it
was also long before any of our oil companies were welcome in
the region.  Bridas also saw the strategic importance of having
a way to get the landlocked oil and gas to the ocean and the
shortest route to do that is from Turkmenistan, through
Afghanistan and Pakistan to an ocean port.

Max Boot also does us all a service by having a Neocon provide a
definition as to what a Neocon really is at this link: 
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/180  


What the Heck Is a Neocon?
by Max Boot
Wall Street Journal
December 30, 2002

I have been called many names in my career -- few of them
printable -- but the most mystifying has to be "neocon." I
suppose I get labeled thus because I am associated, in a small
way, with the Weekly Standard, which is known as a redoubt of
"neoconservatism."

But what the heck is a neocon anyway in 2003? A friend of mine
suggests it means the kind of right-winger a liberal wouldn't be
embarrassed to have over for cocktails. That's as good a
definition as any, since the term has clearly come unmoored from
its original meaning.

'Mugged by Reality'

The original neocons were a band of liberal intellectuals who
rebelled against the Democratic Party's leftward drift on
defense issues in the 1970s. At first the neocons clustered
around Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a Democrat, but then they
aligned themselves with Ronald Reagan and the Republicans, who
promised to confront Soviet expansionism. The neocons, in the
famous formulation of one of their leaders, Irving Kristol, were
"liberals mugged by reality."



They were never conservatives, only pretended to be.  The
resistance against Russian expansion is now a US driven
expansionism of corporate interests, at the end of a gun and
wrapped around it is a bogus War on Terror that has the United
States being the world’s foremost terrorist.

The only solution I can see to restore America is to consolidate
the third parties, the disaffected Republican and Democrats who
have figured it out, and Take Back America before we have
nothing left worth having to take back.

I cannot stress enough that no single person can take there
people on and win.  It will take a grassroots effort that equals
or exceeds either the DNC or RNC.  It will take money and lots
of it to get the media and air time needed to get the message
out to America.  The 2004 presidential election was a $1 billion
show between Bush, Kerry and their wealthy élite / corporate
backers. 

If Americans want change, they have to be prepared to match RNC
and DNC at least dollar for dollar to make that change happen.

The Campaign Website is up and open for contributions at
www.karlschwarz2008.com

It is time to Take Back America and that will require that all
of us be in the front lines and not sitting back and watching
the show.  If you have the time, please forward this email
update to all that you know, for their futures are at stake too.

Sincerely,



Karl W. B. Schwarz


KARL SCHWARZ FOR PRESIDENT 2008
The American Patriot Party, An Independent 3rd Party
Wake Up, End The Lies & Take Back America
www.karlschwarz2008.com  


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