Monday, June 20, 2005

The Great Awakening to the Iraq Deception by Justin Raimondo

McGovern, a former CIA analyst, came up with a perfectly reasonable answer: the "OIL" syndrome, or Oil, Israel, and the Logistical "base" that figures prominently in neoconservative [.pdf file] politico-military strategy for the "liberation" of the Middle East. The oil factor is not even debatable, and surely American military preeminence in the region, as well as the refusal of the U.S. to forswear any effort to build permanent bases in Iraq, lends credence to the "logistical" part of the equation. As for the role played by Israel and its American amen corner in ginning up this war, McGovern didn't quote Goebbels, he cited Brent Scowcroft, who famously said of Bush

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