I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this whole thing. I know that the Kurds have accused the U.S. of supporting Kurdish rebels, but I struggle to understand why. The BTC pipeline was the joint project of Turkey, our NATO ally, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, the agreement being signed under the auspices of the Clinton adminstration (Clinton was in Istanbul and signed the agreement as a witness.)

Why in Exxon's name would Bush have  Saakashvili provoke Russia so that they could destroy the pipeline? Doesn't that pipeline help to diminish the power of both Iran and Russia?

Something very f-ed up is going on here. Possibly something more evil than stuff us libs usually acuse those criminals of. I don't like it one bit.