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where bin Laden was for two months.
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Two months?
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A mass murderer who attacked the United States
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was given a two month head start?
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Who in their right mind would do that?
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Anybody say "nice shot?"
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Nice shot.
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Hell of a shot.
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Or was the war in Afghanistan
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really about something else?
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Perhaps the answer was in Houston, Texas.
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In 1997 while George W. Bush
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was Governor of Texas,
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a delegation of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan
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flew to Houston to meet with Unocal executives
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to discuss the building of a pipeline
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through Afghanistan bringing natural gas
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from the Caspian Sea.
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And who got a Caspian Sea drilling contract
:45:49
the same day Unocal signed the pipeline deal?
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A company headed by a man named Dick Cheney:
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Halliburton.
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The point of view of the US government
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is this was kind of a magic pipeline, um,
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because it could serve so many purposes.
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And who else stood to benefit
:46:06
from the pipeline?
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Bush's number one campaign contributor,
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Kenneth Lay, and the good people of Enron.
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Only the British press covered this trip.
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Then in 2001, just 5 1/2 months before 9/11,
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the Bush Administration welcomed
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a special Taliban envoy to tour the United States
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to help improve the image of the Taliban government.
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You have imprisoned the women...
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It's a horror, let me tell you.
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I'm very sorry to your husband;
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he might have a very difficult time with you.
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Here is the Taliban official
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visiting our State Department
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to meet with US officials.
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Why on Earth did the Bush administration
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allow a Taliban leader to visit the United States
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knowing that the Taliban were harboring the man
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who bombed the USS Cole and our African embassies?
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Well, I guess 9/11 put a stop to that.