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100 1 $aVidal, Gore,$d1925-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040150
245 10 $aDreaming war :$bblood for oil and the Cheney-Bush junta /$cGore Vidal.
260 $aNew York :$bThunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $aix, 197 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aSome of the essays were previously published in publications such as The nation, Times literary supplement, Newsweek, and Vanity fair.
505 00 $tDemocratic vistas --$tGoat song : unanswered questions before, during, after 9/11 --$tMenandering toward Armageddon --$tThree lies to rule by --$tJapanese intentions in the Second World War --$tHow we missed the Saturday dance --$tThe last empire --$tIn the lair of the octopus --$tMickey Mouse, historian --$tWith extreme prejudice --$tThe union of the state --$tThe last defender of the American republic? : an interview with Gore Vidal.
520 1 $a"When Gore Vidal's recent 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.
520 8 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aAnd while "evidence" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration is 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.""--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
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