Reply #151: good post! - I might also add . . .

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Another fan of Mark Zepezauer's perhaps? Yes, I understand there were a couple of contributing causes to inflame Iraq and Iran - the New American Century's tact to divide and conquer for ME high grade oil (65% of global oil reserves). Notice the "freeze-dried" US - Saudi state of the art military bases that Bush Sr. was really protecting from the errant erstwhile Rumsfeld-snubbing (see as Reagan envoy in 1983) MIC business partner - Saddam. Notice the directional drilling from Kuwait into Iraqi oil reserves, while Saddam was heavily indebted to Kuwait already - from - guess who? Hallibuton? Noooo...... Notice reactions to the pipeline project to get that prize of oil reserves in the Caspian region. Notice 14 old Soviet basis being taken over by the U.S.. A lot to notice that some news services don't seem to take much note of, eh?

Yes, anyone that kids themselves about 1) the aganda of the post-Reagan "Team B" chickenhawk war mongers reincarnate, and 2) the importance of the middle east to the wealth and power of vested military industrial complex interests - is not really playing with a full U.S. foreign policy deck - especially wrt the middle east.

See, among many references, "The Trials of Henry Kissinger."

Then, there is: "Boomerang" and "The CIA's Greatest Hits" - Zepezauer
"Tinderbox" - Zunes
"Sleeping With The Devil" - Baer
"Forbidden Truth" - Brisard
"American Dynasty: Deceit and the House of Bush" - Phillip

Many facts are not publically obvious yet - many have been popping up now and then; often ignored. Should be interesting as time goes on . . . Guess we'll see how the laws of karma work . . .

Saddam - the evil tyrant that Cheney and Bush must rid the world of? How convenient for Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush, Perle, Bolton, Feith, etal, huh?