"Bush campaign ads using team"

[kandrathe]

as you just love to quote from that odd piece of writing (aka Final Report of the 9/11 Commission), I would like to provide you with two more dates that strangely did not make their way into the report:

They at least spent a few hundred thousand man hours investigating the facts as they could get them. You feel free to consider the relationship between Iraq and Bin Laden as coincidental, and inconsequential. Perhaps Osama was just soliciting the Iraqi's for building contracts for his construction firms, or maybe shipping oil on his shipping fleet. Wars and desparation make for strange bedfellows indeed.

But, just to get your urban legends correct;

1997 Taliban officials meet with Unocal and Halleburton (at that time headed by our one and only Dick Cheney) Executives in ... dada ... Texas (at this time governed by good old Goerge W.)

Hmmm, that was arranged by if anyone, the Clinton administration (probably Richard Clarke) and involved UNOCAL, and not Haliburton.

BBC - Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
Telegraph - Oil barons court Taliban in Texas
Controversial new movie repeats old and false allegations about Unocal
Newsweek: More Distortions From Michael Moore - Some of the main points in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ really aren’t very fair at all - June 30, 2004

March 19th, 2001 Sayed Rahmatullah Hashimi (a Taliban Minister) is invited to the State Department to improve relations

ABCNEWS - Defending the Taliban, The Taliban's 24-Year-Old PR Man 3/23/2001

And by the way, the UN is in New York. Diplomats of all flavors come here. We even had Soviets here at the height of the Cold War.

Please stop getting your facts from Micheal Moore's propaganda;

Here is a different wrinkle to add to your conspiracy theories;
Bin Laden, The Hidden Truth, Chapter 1 -- by Guillaume Dasquié and Jean-Charles Brisard November, 2001