Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
By Gore Vidal
December 2002

With the Cheney-Bush junta preparing us for a new hot war, Vidal asks whose
interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive attack. Was Afghanistan
turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was
Osama "chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long
contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan"? After all, Corporate
America has long been excited by Eurasia's mineral wealth.

And whatever happened to Osama? "Once Afghanistan looked to be within the
fold, the junta, which had managed with some success to pull off a complex
diplomatic-military caper, abruptly replaced Osama, the personification of
evil, with Saddam Hussein. This has been hard to explain since there is no
US intelligence to connect Iraq with 9/11. Doubtless, 'evidence' is now
being invented. But its uphill work, not helped by stories in the US press
about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must, for the sake of the free
world, be reassigned to US consortiums."

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