Three Reasons we are in Afghanistan:
1. The Afghanistan Pipeline, a 1,000-mile natural gas pipeline whose proposed route cuts through the heartland of the Taliban insurgency:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/12 ... s-20101212
2. The 'previously unknown' deposits of AT LEAST $1 Trillion worth of minerals — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/ ... afghanista
3. Poppy Fields and the Opium / Heroin Trade:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 17230.html
By: OccupyMARINES