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

    Written by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Jeff Cummings

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    When Gore Vidal’s New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head-on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America’s current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was “the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?” After all, he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while “evidence” is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the administration are not helped by “stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must—for the sake of the free world—be reassigned to U.S. consortiums.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 31, 2019
    ISBN9781799751687
    Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
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    Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

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    • 5/5
      Great read. It gives me a look in a separate way. Thanks