The world's second largest oil reserves are in Turkmenistan and the surrounding regions of the Caspian Basin. Familiarize yourself with this region. In brief: Afghanistan is the bridge between Turkmenistan and Pakistan's Indian Ocean ports. The Taliban denied US oil companies a contract to build an oil and natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan, granting it instead to the Bridas Oil Corp. of Argentina.
The US gov't had plans in place prior to 9/11 for invading Afghanistan, largely to steal the country for their pipeline. The Pentagon is now building US military bases across the country in a path which would allow Chevron, BP, Mobil, etc to be guarded by US troops. Such collusion between government and big business is FASCISM.
You won't find much if anything about this in the mainstream media, but Karl Schwarz, former beltway Repulican of HW Bush and WBush, got sufficiently disgusted with the administrations' covert and disgusting GREED and abandoned the administration. His information is crucial to understanding the groundwork of our massive Middle Eastern military presence.
www.karlschwarz.com

http://tribes.tribe.net/caspianbasinoil