Gore Vidal's new book, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta hit number 5 on the New York Times Bestseller List. In Dreaming War Vidal continues his defense of the American Republic by confronting the Cheney-Bush Junta head-on in a devastating series of essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by.
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."
Vidal conjures up a vision of America in a vengeful mood, where the media is assigned its familiar task of inciting public opinion, where the citizenry are reduced to spear-carrying (tarzan, Bill, techplayer, broadstbull & co.) and the Cheney-Bush junta is the latest, most lethal--and unconstitutional--advocate of Corporate America's Enemy-of-the-Month club. |
