The Fraudulent War - free ebook on the 'War on Terror'

The Fraudulent War - The facts about the Bush Administration's 'War on Terror' by Richard W. Behan is a quick but thorough dive through the dark waters of the scam that is America's war on terror. Well documented it shows that the wars against both Afghanistan and Iraq were purely and simply a land-grab for oil. They were planned well before the WTC attack with bin Laden serving as a convenient patsy.

Although the oil fields in Iraq are vastly richer than those in Afghanistan the story about the demonization of the Taliban is perhaps the more interesting. The Taliban repeatedly offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to the USA but stubbornly refused to renege on a contract they had signed in 1996 with Bridas Corporation of Argentina to build the Trans Afghanistan Pipeline. The USA didn't care about bin Laden; they just wanted the oil and pushed for American Unocal to steal the contract away from Bridas. In 1998 Unocal asked the House Committee on Internation Relations to remove the Taliban from power. Five weeks before 9/11 Bush informed Pakistan and India that he would be launching an attack on the Taliban. That very week after 9/11 Taliban negotiators repeated that they could hand over bin Laden. Bush refused - it was the oil, stupid! On 7 October 2001 the carpet bombing of Afghanistan started with the excuse of hitting both bin Laden and the Taliban for harbouring him!

With the Taliban removed, the first US appointed head of an Afghan interim government was Hamid Karzai, who later became elected President. Hamid Karzai was a consultant to Unocal. The first US envoy to Afghanistan was John Maresca, former Vice president of Unocal. The next Ambassador to Afghanistan is Zalmay Khalizad, a former consultant to Unocal and founder of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). You can read about PNAC in the ebook.

And all of this funded by the American taxpayers for the profits of big oil and military contractors.

In the past I have referred to it as the War on Ghosts... and so it seems.