Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Pipe Line in Afghanistan

The clip pipe line in Afghanistan from Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

In 1997, while George W. Bush was governor of Texas...
...a delegation of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan flew to Houston...
...to meet with Unocal executives...
...to discuss the building of a pipeline through Afghanistan...
...bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea.
And who got a Caspian Sea drilling contract...
...the same day Unocal signed the pipeline deal?
A company headed by a man named Dick Cheney. Halliburton.
From the point of view of the U.S. government...
...this was kind of a magic pipeline...
...because it could serve so many purposes.
And who else stood to benefit from the pipeline?
Bush's number-one campaign contributor, Kenneth Lay...
...and the good people of Enron.
Only the British press covered this trip.
Then in 2001, just five and a half months before 9/11...
...the Bush administration welcomed a Taliban envoy...
...to tour the United States...
...to help improve the image of the Taliban government.
You have imprisoned the women. It's a horror, let me tell you.
I'm sorry to your husband. He must have a difficult time with you.
Here is the Taliban official visiting our State Department...
...to meet with U.S. officials.
Why would the Bush administration allow a Taliban leader...
...to visit the United States, knowing that the Taliban...
...were harboring the man who bombed the U.S.S. Cole...
...and our African embassies?
Well, I guess 9/11 put a stop to that.
When the invasion of Afghanistan was complete...
...we installed its new president, Hamid Karzai.
Who was Hamid Karzai?
He was a former adviser to Unocal.
Bush also appointed, as our envoy to Afghanistan...
...Zalmay Khalilzad, who was also a former Unocal adviser.
I guess you can probably see where this is leading.

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