(Part 2) As a TRUE Texian 1st and an American 2nd, I am left with having to reconcile how such a people as us can continue to both ignore the FACTS that have been gathered and well documented since then while supporting what many now know as outright fabrications and LIES! But, I guess as we over here get our cheap fuel sources to waste, internet porn and high-grade drugs for numbing the brain, it's ok to destroy, mame and outright KILL whomever we need to in order to keep the population pacified with their self-pleasuring consumptionism as we arm the world with the very weapons we will blame you for owning and when the time is right for profitability label you an "enemy of the state" for possessing such things and take you down for becoming dangerous with the very weapons we sold to you. You would think with the 100's of times we have done this that both our people and the despots would learn to break the cycle, but as we can all plainly see, obviously not. So take heed World-at-large, for YOU may be next on the American "hit list" when it suits the corporate controllers of our bought and paid for "officials" who do their bidding in the name of a people too lazy and apathetic to stop them. I truly never thought I would see a day on the horizon when we may be forced to call on YOUR people to help fight for REAL Freedoms to be someday restored in what is looking like a possible 2nd Revolution here in the USA in a not-to-distant future.

(Part 1) Well, many of you hit on key points, but missed the TRUE reason we (USA) are there and will be a VERY long time to come IF your various peoples do not seek that actual truth which is quite simply natural gas and maybe a little oil. Primary reason is the gas. Unocal has been drooling over those untapped gas supplies for years and after the negotiations between them and the Taliban, who were okay at the time as long as they seemed cooperative, decided against making the deal. The very next day after the failed negotiations, Sept 10th, 2001, our CIA sent their invasion plans to the White House for approval. One little problem, we had no LEGAL cause for such an action, not to mention him being out of town on a bogus photo-op trip in Florida which served no purpose other than to insure he was not able to interfere. Enter the G.W. Bush's wicked 'problem-solver', V.P. Dick Cheney. He scoops up the plan and being a loyal corp lapdog for big oil, he begins a series of events by taking the initiative to insure that there will be a valid 'reason' for invasion/occupation as he literally conducts a horrifically  orchestrated "symphony of destruction" that was literally decades in the making. As the "acting commander-in-chief" he assumed total control of the national defense network and played it and its participants like a master conductor would if performing at a world-class venue. He and his other leading 'Death Merchants', some of whom include Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl, all comprise what I have dubbed the "Legion of Doom", which has several other key members, like Kissinger, G.H.W. Bush (Pops), and Armitage to name just a few, were all 'players' in one way or another in the monstrously horrific events of Sept. 11th, 2001.