Excerpted from the "Oprah" article:
But there are other hidden agendas as well. Many high-ranking leaders of the religious right in America have been quite vocal attacking Islam, the Quran and prophet Muhammad publicly. Neither the Bush Administration nor any Republican leader has condemned their attacks or disassociated themselves from these extremists. In fact, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, with other members of Congress, spoke alongside these extremists at their Christian Coalition convention.
The extremists see Islam as a threat and any blow that can be given to a Muslim nation in favor of Israel is a winning point. They view this war as bringing the world ever closer to the second coming of Jesus.
Again, I'm more and more convinced that all that war hysteria is about Israel only --and, more specifically, about (East) Jerusalem.
The oil spin is suasive enough, no doubt... yet, it just doesn't fit the macroeconomic picture of the oil market: the world economy is on the brink of a deflationary slump, and besides the US, there's no major oil-guzzling market. At the end of the day, nobody --not even Arab oil producers-- has interest in choking the US economy.
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