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because it could serve so many purposes.
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And who else stood to benefit
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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.
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When the invasion of Afghanistan was complete
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we installed its new president,
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Hamid Karzai.
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Who was Hamid Karzai?
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He was a former advisor to Unocal.
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Bush also appointed
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as his envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad
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who was also a former Unocal advisor.
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I guess you can probably see where this is leading.
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Faster than you can say Black Gold Texas Tea,
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Afghanistan signed an agreement
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with her neighboring countries
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to build a pipeline through Afghanistan
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carrying natural gas from the Caspian Sea.
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Oh, and the Taliban?
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Uh, they mostly got away.
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As did Osama bin Laden and most of al Qaeda.
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Terror is bigger than one person.
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And he's just, he's, he's a, he's a person
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who's now been marginalized,
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so, I, I don't know where he is, nor...
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and I just don't spend that much time on it,
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Ellie, to be honest with ya.