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NOTES
1. Brendan O'Neill, "Being antiwar isn't about the oil," Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 2003.
2. Noam Chomsky, interview with Dubai TV, "'Of course, it was all about Iraq's resources,'" December 2, 2003.
3. O'Neill.
4. Pratap Chatterjee, "Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War," Corpwatch, March 20, 2003.
5. Sam Howe Verhovek and John Hendren, "U.S. Seeking to Protect Iraqi Oil Fields," Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2003; and Bill Glauber, "Oil field sabotage called halfhearted," Chicago Tribune, April 6, 2003.
6. Rose Brady, ed., "Rogue States: Why Washington May Ease Sanctions," Business Week, May 7, 2001.
7. Roger Burbach, "Bush Ideologues Trump Big Oil Interests in Iraq," Alternatives, September 30, 2003.
8. Anthony Sampson, "Oilmen don't want another Suez," Guardian Unlimited, December 22, 2002. Sampson is author of The Seven Sisters (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), which deals with oil companies and the Middle East.
Dan Morgan and David B. Ottaway wrote in The Washington Post: "Officials of several major firms said they were taking care to avoiding playing any role in the debate in Washington over how to proceed on Iraq. 'There's no real upside for American oil companies to take a very aggressive stance at this stage. There'll be plenty of time in the future,' said James Lucier, an oil analyst with Prudential Securities." ("In Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue," September 15, 20002, p. A1)
For MSNBC, John W. Schoen wrote: "So far, U.S. oil companies have been mum on the subject of the potential spoils of war." ("Iraqi oil, American bonanza?," November 11, 2002) See also Dana Goldstein, "Iraq war not about oil, says industry insider," Brown Daily Herald, February 28, 2003.
9. William D. Nordhaus, "Iraq: The Economic Consequences of War," New York Review of Books, December 5, 2002. See also George L. Perry, "The War on Terrorism, the World Oil Market and the U.S. Economy" (pdf), Analysis Paper #7, America's Response to Terrorism, November 28, 2001 (rev.).
10. Eric Schmitt and Joel Brinkley, "State Dept. Study Foresaw Trouble Now Plaguing Iraq," New York Times, October 19, 2003. [Please note: This reposting, by Truthout.org, may constitute a copyright violation.]
11. Bryan Bender, "CIA Warned Bush of Iraq War Guerrilla Peril," Boston Globe, August 9, 2003. [Please note: This reposting, by GlobalSecurity.com, may constitute a copyright violation.]
12. Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger, "Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions," New York Times, September 28, 2004.
13. Rupert Cornwell, "Pentagon officials ignored reports on dire state of Iraq's oil industry," Independent, October 6, 2003. [Please note: This reposting, by Rense.com, may constitute a copyright violation.]
Jeff Gerth, "Report Offered Bleak Outlook about Iraq Oil," New York Times, October 5, 2003. [Please note: This reposting, by Common Dreams, may constitute a copyright violation.]
14. Gerth; and Stefan Halfer and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 223.
15. Charles A. Kaulhaus, "War in Iraq: 'Not a War for Oil,'" In the National Interest, March 5, 2003.
16. Yahya Sadowski, "No war for whose oil?," Le Monde diplomatique, April 2003.
17. Quoted in Robert Dreyfus, "The Thirty-Year Itch," MotherJones.com, March/April 2003.
18. Dave Moniz, "Monthly Costs of Iraq, Afghan Wars Approach That of Vietnam," USA Today, September 8, 2003, p. 1.
19. "GOP Backing Out of Iraq Offensive?," FOXNews.com, August 16, 2002.
Todd S. Purdum and Patrick E. Tyler, "Top Republicans Break with Bush on Iraq Strategy," New York Times, August 16, 2002. [Please note: This reposting, by Common Dreams, may constitute a copyright violation.]
Jim Lobe, "Washington goes to war over war," Asia Times, August 21, 2002.
Lawrence Eagleburger seved in foreign-policy and national-security positions for Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, and had been a protégé of Henry Kissinger's. On Eagleburger, see "Lawrence Eagleburger," Harry Walker Agency.
Brent Scowcroft served as national-security adviser to both Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft served 29 years in the military, attaining the rank of lieutenant general.
20. Brent Scowcroft, "Don't Attack Iraq," Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2002. (Posted, perhaps by permission, at The Forum for International Policy.)
21. "Woodward Shares War Secrets," "60 Minutes," CBS News, April 19, 2004.
22. Michele Steinberg, "Can the Brzezinski-Wolfowitz Cabal's War Game Be Stopped?," Executive Intelligence Review, December 7, 2001.
23. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997). A similar argument that the control of vital resources is the key to global power and global warfare is presented by Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (New York: Henry Holt, 2001).
24. Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Why Unity Is Essential," Washington Post, February 19, 2003. (Posted, perhaps by permission, at drumbeat.mlaterz.net.)
25. "War With Iraq Is Not in America's National Interest," New York Times, September 26, 2002. (Ad text, apparently not copyrighted, posted at bear-left.com.)
Daniel W. Drezner, "The realist take on Iraq," Daniel W. Drezner Website, September 25, 2002.
"About the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy," Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, December 29, 2003.
26. Robert Kuttner, "Neo-cons have hijacked U.S. foreign policy," Boston Globe, September 10, 2003.
27. Thomas E. Ricks, "Some Top Military Brass Favor Status Quo in Iraq," Washington Post, July 28, 2002, p. A-1; Justin Raimondo, "Attack of the Chicken-Hawks"; and Doug Thompson, "Suddenly, the hawks are doves and the doves are hawks," Capitol Hill Blue, August 1, 2002.
28. Mike Salinero, "Gen. Zinni Says War with Iraq Is Unwise," Tampa Tribune, 24 August 2002. [Please note: This reposting, at what appears to be a personal home page at www.mtholyoke.edu, may constitute a copyright violation.]
"Joseph Hoar," Disinfopedia; "Norman Schwarzkopf," Disinfopedia; and Thomas E. Ricks, "Desert Caution," Washington Post, January 28, 2003, p. C1.
29. "Commentary: Possible Worst-Case Scenarios If War with Iraq Occurs," National Public Radio, March 11, 2003.
James Webb, "Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years?," Washington Post, September 4, 2002. [Please note: This reposting, at Soldiers for the Truth, may constitute a copyright violation.]
David Hackworth, "First base, first!," WorldNetDaily, November 26, 2002.
William Raspberry, "Unasked Questions," Washington Post, September 30, 2002, p. A19. [Please note: This reposting, at what appears to be a personal home page at www.geocities.com, may constitute a copyright violation.]
30. Thomas E. Ricks, "Army War College report blasts war on terrorism," © Knight Ridder, January 12, 2004. [Please note: This reposting at Information Clearinghouse from a version posted at Contra Costa Times may constitute a copyright violation.]
31. Justin Raimondo, "The Neocons' War," Antiwar.com, June 2, 2004.
32. Raimondo.
33. As he prepared to leave the presidency, George Washington wrote in his Farewell Address: "So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." ("Washington's Farewell Address 1796," The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.)
34. George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose," Tribune, March 22, 1946. (Posted, in English, at a Russian Website devoted to the work of Orwell.)
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