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Title: Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal ISBN: 1-56025-502-1 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (67 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Questions we never ask are answered
Comment: Gore Vidal is an icon from many baby-boomers' pasts. Current presidential campaign coverage always compares poorly to the articulate sparring of Vidal and William F. Buckley. He filled in the past that we were never taught in high-school history in his historical novels, 'Burr' and '1876.' He is a towering intellect that is unfashionable in these anti-intellectual times.
And thank god he is asking the unfashionable questions. Like why the Air Force did not scramble AT ALL on 9/11, mandatory military protocol, to investigate the hijacked planes. The 3 page, minute by minute outline from when the first hijacked plane diverted from its flight plan to the last crash at the Pentagon 2 hours later, is worth buying the book alone. It will come home, in chilling detail, how badly the Bush administration wants war at any cost.
This is a must read for all Americans. Well-researched and documented facts, something we are not getting on CNN.
Rating: 4
Summary: Some good information, but some unnecessary additions
Comment: This book is pretty shocking. Most of the information is well researched and very accurate, however there are a few misleading claims and some of the essays included seemed a bit pointless.
The information on the Usocal pipeline is pretty accurate; it opened my eyes and I did some fact checking just to get more information and to see how valid Vidal's claims were. I've even refrenced those claims in international relations term papers I've written.
The information about planes not being up in the air to shoot down the hijacked planes may not be entirely acurrate, however. I was on a special tour of the Pentagon and the military liason, a colonel in the Air Force, giving us the tour mentioned approximately what the proceedure is and why the planes weren't in the air on 9-11. I'm the first person who won't trust anyone in the administration and that was an issue you can't really check the facts on, but it seemed pretty accurate. They didn't lift the planes due to timing, the distance it would take to reach New York, and they don't have nearly as many regular runs as they should because every time we fly a plane it costs millions. It sounded more like incompetance than malicious intent.
One essay appeared to be nothing more than Vidal defending himself against his critics. It read more like finger pointing and gossip and I really didn't see a need for it, nor was I interested.
But, otherwise, it's something I would definitely recommend.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Comment: Another deliciously ill-tempered screed from veteran gadfly Vidal (Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, p. 398, etc.), perhaps our fiercest homegrown critic of American imperialism in general and the current administration in particular. In this gathering of pieces from the Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere, Vidal amply reveals just how deeply ticked off he has been by recent developments. The judicial appointment of "the charmingly simian George W. Bush" to run the front office is by now old news, but it proves, Vidal insists, that corporate America is really in charge of the whole show. The failure of American intelligence to foresee the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in his eyes, speaks mostly to the general stupidity of the "oil-and-gas Cheney-Bush junta," which neglected to pass on to us ordinary citizens mayday warnings that had emanated from "Presidents Putin and Mubarak, from Mossad, and even from elements of our long-suffering FBI." The weird fact that representatives of the Taliban had toured Texas oil facilities shortly before Osama bin Laden arrived on the scene, evidently with an eye to striking a mutually beneficial deal for a new pipeline across Afghanistan, and the equally weird fact that said Talibanistas had hired a niece of former CIA director Richard Helms to handle their PR, are two more items on the seemingly endless list of things that annoy Vidal. American support for Israel, the death of the old American republic and its replacement, along about 1950, with "the National Security State," the refusal of mainstream historians to admit the possibility that the Japanese had a point in bombing Pearl Harbor-he enumerates these aggravating items point by point with caressing venom. That Vidal is fonder of sermonizing than logical argument, of assertion rather than cold data, is no matter: this is trademark Goring and unforgiving: woe to its unfortunate target. A pleasure for those convinced of the present ruling elite's deep-seated flaws and deeper evils, and tasty food for thought even for the doubtful. Agent: Richard Morris
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Title: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal ISBN: 156025405X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal ISBN: 0300101716 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast ISBN: 0452283914 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Last Empire : Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal ISBN: 037572639X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Gore Vidal ISBN: 1878825003 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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