Crude Politics: How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism (Book

[RamboLiberal]

OMFG! This is from WND Publishers - WorldNetDaily. And I actually bought the book because this thing reads like Forbidden Truth. The author - Paul Sperry - spanks the Bushies hard claiming they are ignoring Osama in favor of getting those pipelines in Afghanistan. Also exposes how Bushie is cozying up to the Saudis and corrupt Pakistani's while making us even more vulnerable to terrorism. I can't believe they published this - the same people who publish Katherine Harris, Savage, Wayne LaPierre, etc. And they are advertising it on their website. Will the Freepers read this?

Is the "war on terror" declared by the Bush administration just a cynical and immoral subterfuge for securing needed Mideast oil, as leftists and anti-war activists claim?

Or is America's ongoing military response to the horrendous attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, not only justified, but motivated totally by compelling national security concerns with no admixture of any other agenda, as administration cheerleaders claim?

Or, does the truth lie somewhere in between? And if so, exactly where?

"Crude Politics: How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism" makes the unsettling case that the Bush administration, though engaged in an unavoidable and moral war on terror, also tried simultaneously to secure future energy production in the terrorists' home turf and ended up compromising America's national security interests.

While the United States was still reeling from the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, says "Crude Politics" author and WorldNetDaily Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry, Bush administration diplomats were resuming talks with Pakistani officials over gas and oil pipelines in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ultimately, the U.S. seized the opportunity of the war-on-terror as a reason to oust the Taliban -- the major obstacle blocking plans for the precious pipelines linking Caspian reserves to hot Asian markets. Indeed, the book documents how the Bush administration tailored the war on terrorism around oil interests in the Caspian region, and to a lesser extent, in Iraq.

http://www.shopnetdaily.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1283

[rfranklin]

1. We prefer fantasy...

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