This is a couple days old, but I just noticed it. It's pretty funny; a satire on the last two years if Gore hadn't been screwed out of the Presidency. There's one thing I wanted to point out:

"In 2002 The New York Times revealed that oil companies with close political connections to the Democratic Party had schemed with Gore to run an oil pipeline across Afghanistan from Turkmenistan to Pakistan--and that this was why he had attacked Afghanistan and cozied up with the Pakistani dictatorship."

The pipeline idea is sketchy at best. The idea was dropped in 1998 when the Taliban's control of Afghanistan was in disarray. No oil company will touch the idea now, seeing as Afghanistan is still chaotic; not really much better than it was before. This wouldn't have been hard to forsee.

If you go in and take over a country, then build an oil pipeline, you've given rebel groups a huge target. They had to have known that Americans invading a Middle Eastern country would cause quite a backlash among the locals. It would make much more sense to increase the funding of the Taliban, which they were doing, or decide to fund another rebel group. Even though that may have not been working, it's the best option if you are going to build a high profile target like an oil pipeline. Of course, if you're losing influence over the country to another regional power, and you need to take it back, invasion would be the best option. You don't need stability. You just need control.

More on this idea at The Emperor's New Clothes.

Update: Fixed the link to the article.