U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Mineral Reserves in Afghanistan

Another thing americans don't know about is what has been going on in China.Yeah you know a little about China and Russia having a big hand in the UN resolutions.Yes China and Russia are siding with N.Korea and Iran because of their heavy trades with them.And you may have heard that China bought a lease to mine the land in Afghanistan near Kabul building roads and railroads.But do you know that China has been flooding world markets illegally with their cheap,crap chinese steel?Do you know that China tried to corner the market by buying all the iron ore from Australia which is the worlds biggest supplier? You could probably care less but Australia is our ally.And they blocked China from cornering the market for iron ore.What is iron ore?Without it our blast furnaces could not make iron which is made into steel.Why should you care?There are only 23 blast furnaces in the US and only half are online.As of 2005, china has over 3,000 blast furnaces online at maximum production.As of 2005 their military buildup has gone from defensive mode to offensive mode.In other words they are building aircraft carriers and destroyers let alone tanks per month.Letting China into the world trade agreements and our free trade agreements has been allowing China to "DUMP" their crap steel on the world and never buying 1 pound from america.That is illegal.As of 2005 our steel workers marched on washington asking for a 2% tariff increase on chinese steel to level the markets.Both parties in congress said no.Steel mills were told to consolidate to match the chinese prices.Most mills closed.Those who consolidated lost half their wages and pensions.And they still cannot compete with a chinese steelworker making 4 dollars a week.Not even illegal mexicans can.Both parties in congress are selling our country,jobs,wages and benefits to third world countries at our expense while they feather their nests.If we don't start right now and get our government to stop subsidizing rich farmers to not grow and subsidize new farmers to grow which would renew the contracts from the steel mills for farm equipment and pipelines from new desalinization plants transferring ocean water to our plains,which would revitalize our auto industries.Only 2% of oil spills are caused by off shore rigs and piping.If we don't drill our own oil instead of importing 250 billion dollars in oil a year, where 98% of our spills are from tankers,We will be doomed.Our government has sold us out.

Utterly amazing what goes through americans minds.Russia wanted Afghanistan for its minerals is a known fact.The Mujahadeen who fought against the Russians were getting 15 dollars a truckload for the opium.America backed the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden against the Russians to keep communism from spreading fearing the russians would rule over Afghanistan with a dictator.After the Taliban entered the picture, they wanted 45 dollars a truckload and fought the Mujahadeen to.It was the lesser of 2 evils at that time.Now america would have been better if we didin't back the Taliban.The Taliban are Pashtun out of Pakistan.Karzai is Pashtun.Osama is Pashtun to.Karzai is weak as he favors freindship with the Taliban who are Pashtun.But the majority of Afghans are not Pashtun.Do not confuse the tribe of Pashtun with the Sunnis and Shiites which are the split sects of the Muslims after the death of Mohammed.The Islamic extremists are mainly Shiites funneled into Iraq and Afghanistan from Iran.Where einsteins in america are screwing up is failing to understand that the Sunnis and Shiites will fight each other because they hate each other thinking that their belief in allah is right and the others is wrong.But they both will join together against america and westerners because they are of the Islam faith and believe we are wrong believing in the God of Jehovah and Christ.In the Quran Christ is mentioned as a great prophet only.Mohammed who was a drunken king was exciled into the wilderness by his own people for having sex with a boy.He came out with a new god and book mimicking Moses.They then with their new god put mohammed above Christ.Anyway you go about it,this is the mentality of the people that our government is trying to second guess.And that is futile no matter how good our intentions are.Kind of like cops and gangs living side by side.

Everyone has their opinion.With the advent of the computer age, it is easier to acquire knowledge.Having the wisdom to be able to discern the truth from facts is not automatic or God given.Many people have a lot of knowledge but lack the wisdom to discern.Thus you have a chaotic world with a lot of people who thought they were right.This results in war.It is true that almost every war in history has been fought over religious ideologies,land and resources.The settling of America was the first exception.It was an escape from a religious ideology of a forced nature.Its initial settling was not to conquer new resources but its first war was defending against a mandated religious ideology and a takeover of its resources.And it is true after the settling, that America did what every other nation did.Began to acquire land and conquer it for resources to.Many will criticize Great Britain for their conquering of lands for resources.Many countries throughout history have conquered others for resources and a result has always been human slavery.Every race on the face of this earth has been enslaved to another race at some point in history.But Great Britain did something other nations didn't.They taught the people of all those lands how to farm,how to make clothes,how to read and write.They civilized many countries.With the ending of the British occupations, it is easy to see the outcome of a non-government controlled country.As in Africa,tribes use machetes to cut humans into parts fighting over resources.And in many countries throughout the world.From America entering WW2 until now, she has entered many wars not as an occupation of resources.She has used her military to end the fighting over resources and help establish free governments to rule over the resources keeping them free to be sold on world markets.If America did not do this, the world would be choked off and at the hands of radical and extreme governments.Many wars we were and are in or have troops in now was because of the spread of communism.Where communism was the take over of resources of a nation by a dictator or extreme religious ideologists.Our congress has allowed our country to be able to be taken over by other countries with free trade feathering their own nests with our jobs,money,taxes and blood going overseas.

Surprise, surprise! Fancy the US sending troops to a country with billions in natural resourses! In Iraq it was oil. The big wonderful US helping folks out around the world ... so long as they have stuff we can make money out of, that is. This is like the British Empire all over again. They called it "colonization." What do we call it?

Impossible!!!..Debeers would already have this land leased if that were indeed the case.

"US Geologists and Defense Department Officials"....just happened to find all these riches? I thought we were there to fight terrorism? Weren't there "terrorist training camps" in Afghanistan? They must have been looking under some rocks for the training camps and they just happened to be geologists and they found all this gold and other mineral deposits. Yeah, right.

Great... something else to fight about. What great news... oh yeah... and maybe we can fight with the Chinese over it... one way to end joblessness is for everyone to be drafted...and of course, American industrial might will once again be stimulated (probably for the last time ) by all the weapons we have to make...

Cant wait!

Well let's see........1 trillion is only 1/14th of our national debt. Maybe since we are over there saving their butts, our people are over there dying for them...what price do you put on a soldier's life...we should just take control of this vast find and A. help pay for the war and B. help us pay down the debt. The war is part of our debt and Afgan should pay us back.

did they seriously think afghanistan werent aware of their wealth? how do they think the talibans earn so much profits? and why do they fight to the teeth? well duh duh duh its so westerners wont get their hands on their minerals.

Wonderful! Dig it all up, bring it home, and get the heck out of there.