RE: [GBlist] Afgreenistan

["Ralph Bicknese" <ralph.bicknese@christnerinc.com>]

Please lets not distort the reasons for our current effort in Afghanistan.
On Sept 11 terrorists supported and sponsored by the government of
Afghanistan committed an act of war and murdered thousands of innocent
civilians (from numerous countries) on American soil.  They hijacked 4
civilian aircraft, occupied by civilians and crashed 2 into the World Trade
Center in an attempt to murder over 40,000 civilians, crashed one into the
countries symbolic if not actual center of our military power, would have
probably crashed it into the White House had they been able to, and brave
and now dead citizens foiled the attempt to crash the fourth into who knows
where. We have learned a very hard and bitter lesson terrorism must not
continue virtually unchecked.

Do not insult us by saying we are fighting these murderous acts because of
this country's thirst for oil (no matter how flawed our energy policy might
otherwise be).

Ralph Bicknese

-----Original Message-----
From: Susannah [mailto:susannah@cyber-dyne.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:33 PM
To: Green Building
Subject: Re: [GBlist] Afgreenistan

The reason we are at war in Afghanistan is that there are huge amounts of
oil north of Afghanistan, in Central Asia, and we want a route to get that
oil to ocean-going ships -- without going through Iran or Russia.
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