Weazel, they must really know their stuff if tying the war in afganistan to a number of fairly normal foriegn policy manuevers is a story that has been told since far before 9/11.
Truly gifted to have so accurately forseen all that would come.
Why do people so easily dismiss what you see as the smoking gun? Well, if you want to stretch the leaps of logic as our friends have done here, you could note that no region of the world is without some sort of petroleum reserves. Also, there is likely no region of the world completely devoid of contacts from the United States, both economic and diplomatic (heaven forbid, sometimes they even overlap!). Hence it is quite obvious that our entire international communication and diplomatic system is setup for nothing more than getting a few CEOs wealthy. This is the logic used in the all informative damning book.