Sunday, July 16, 2006

Hypocrisy and Invisible Pipelines

I was struck by the irony of Jim Fetzer's words, when I listened to his July 14th interview of fellow "scholar" Kevin Barrett.

His spokesmen [referring to a Wisconsin politician criticizing Barrett] have even said that they don’t need to go to ST911.org and check out the research of physicists, and aeronautical engineers and mechanical engineers and civil engineers and pilots. They don’t need to do that because they know that we are all just Bush haters.

First of all, what were the names of the civil engineers again? Secondly, I was immediately reminded of an article on the "scholars" in the Chronicle for Higher Education (emphasis added):
911myths.com, a Web site run by a software developer in England, is one of the few venues that offers a running scrutiny of the various claims and arguments coming out of the 9/11 Truth movement. Mr. Fetzer has heard of 911myths.com, but he has never visited the site."I have been dealing with disinformation and phony stories about the death of JFK for all these years. There's a huge amount of phoniness out there," he says. "You have to be very selective in how you approach these things."
Well I am glad they are open to contrary evidence.

Fetzer then goes on to lie about oil pipelines (emphasis added):

Look at the situation in Afghanistan today. We have had negotiations with the Taliban, where we told the Taliban that if they allowed an oil pipeline to be built across the northern part of the country, that we would bath them in gold, and if not we would bath them in bombs. They didn’t, we did. And today that pipeline, Melissa, is constructed, being constructed across Northern Afghanistan and the two massive permanent bases situated perfectly to protect it.
OK, so these pipelines are being built? That is interesting. Where are they? Who is building them? What oil companies are involved. What areas are they connecting? Where are the pictures of the construction? The news reports?

Fetzer doesn't even pay attention to the basics of Afghan geography. He claims that our bases are "situated perfectly" to protect the pipeline across "Northern Afghanistan". There are two main bases in Afghanistan, the first in Bagram, just north of Kabul, and the second in Kandahar, which is in Southern Afghanistan. The only way this could be along a pipeline is if you wanted to waste billions of dollars to run a pipeline to nowhere, along the Pakistani-Afghan border.




















There are a lot of other things to debunk in this interview, including more lies about PNAC, cell phones, the phrase "Allahu akhbar", and how Hugo Chavez is a great guy, but I don't have the time.

9 Comments:

At 16 July, 2006 15:56, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

Once again, pushing things down our throats as facts, without any evidence, not even the slightest, to back it up...

 
At 16 July, 2006 16:00, Blogger telescopemerc said...

I've said it before:

'No Blood for Natural Gas' sounds more like a bowel problem than a rallying cry.

 
At 16 July, 2006 16:23, Blogger Alex said...

'No Blood for Natural Gas' sounds more like a bowel problem than a rallying cry.

:D

Sounds painful. Like something you'd get after a week of eating nothing but army rations.

 
At 16 July, 2006 19:39, Blogger James B. said...

That reminds me of a story my dad once told me. He was in Vietnam in 1963 and he ate a C-Ration. This was back when they came with cigarettes. Well his cigarettes had a pack of lucky strikes, with a green wrapper. You history buffs should be able to tell the significance of that.

 
At 16 July, 2006 20:25, Blogger shawn said...

Yup, we got lied into two wars and we are stuck in both of them. Afghanistan is a mess just like Iraq and we can't get out of there, either.

Yes, Afghanistan is such a mess than over 80 percent of them are happy we came.

Moron.

 
At 16 July, 2006 20:25, Blogger shawn said...

How were we lied into Afghanistan, idiot? Everyone should agree that war was justified.

 
At 17 July, 2006 04:19, Blogger Pepik said...

Its funny that the "Unocal" pipeline is still a smoking gun... first the plot was that Unocal was going to build a pipeline (to supply gas to Pakistan? So what?) then when Unocal bailed, the CTs decided that if anybody builds a pipeline anywhere in Afghanistan, that somehow proves the smoking gun. Poor sods, they can't even get that - five years later the pipeline project is still just paper.

 
At 18 July, 2006 03:21, Blogger shawn said...

"But there is no connection!" scream the 'non-truthers'.

It depends a great deal on who's building the pipeline, Einstein.

 
At 18 July, 2006 05:42, Blogger Pepik said...

So a non-US company is building a pipeline to sell gas owned by non-US companies to non-US companies in other non-US countries. This is the smoking gun which explains the US invasion.

This is what I am talking about. The theory is now about a pipeline. Any pipeline. If any pipeline to anwhere is built in Afghanistan, it proves a conspiracy. Why? Because.

 

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