Are you kidding? Would Cheney, Bush and their minions had left Afghanistan and the war against the Taliban and Bin Ladin if they knew about these resources?
Then again, leaving the job half done and starting a war in Iraq might have been their way of assuring we would be involved in both countries for years. Bush isn't that smart... but Cheney is.
Later and Best, bulldzr
"So often times it happens, that we live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key." -The Eagles