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Yes, It Was Blood for Oil (Part Three): Codepink Nails the Truth About George Bush's Wars

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(9) This text of the President's speech was found on the CNN website. It was posted there at 11:14 PM, September 11, 2001.

(10) Richard F. Grimmett, "Authorization For Use of Military Force in Response to the 9/11 Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History, Congressional Research Service, Order Code RS22357, updated January 16, 2007.

(11) Presidential remarks of September 12, 2001, Public Papers of the Presidents, George W. Bush, 2001, II, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003, p. 1100.

(12) The description to follow is distilled from Delivering Osama, cited above.

(13) See "Kabir Mohabbat" in Wikipedia. See also, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, "How Bush Was Offered bin Laden and Blew It," in Counterpunch, November 1, 2004.

(14) See, John Pilger, "The Betrayal of Afghanistan," The Guardian, September 20, 2003.

(15) See, "Afghanistan: Our Alpine Quagmire," Los Angeles Indymedia, October 9, 2009. See also, "Trans-Afghan Pipeline Project for Turkmen Gas Back on the Table," The Monitor, Volume 8, Issue 51, March 13, 2002, The Jamestown Foundation.

(16) See, "About the reason for US war with Afghanistan," Alexander's Oil and Gas Connections, April 8, 2008.

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