Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta [Paperback]

After being put into office by corrupt officials, did the Bush administration on 9/11 "let it happen on purpose"? Or, did they orchestrate it to bring the people around to the plans for wars in Eurasia and world domination? - Questions few Americans dare to consider for fear of public censure. The author asks the question, "Transparency?" and answers with the word "Complicity."

A quote from page 29: " ... who and what kept the Air Force from following its normal procedure instead of waiting an hour and twenty minutes until the damage was done and only then launching fighters. Obviously, somebody had ordered the Air Force to make no move to intercept those hijackings ... "
From page 32: "Certainly, the hour-twenty-minute failure to put fighter planes in the air could not have been due to a breakdown thoughout the entire Air Force along the East Coast. Mandatory standard operating procedure had been told to cease and desist."

(This review was censored by Amazon twice, taking out the word "corrupt". It took two weeks to show up as censored the first time. And when I added the word again, it was again censored. So I changed it to say "junta" instead, and that is why there are two reviews, I guess. I only edited and didn't write another report.)

... Indeed! This is the crux of the problem: what to DO about our ever-dwindling freedoms as once TRULY brave & free American citizens! In the meantime, it is good to see that people like the great writer, Gore Vidal, are still going out of their way to stick their necks out in order to educate anyone with ears to hear about what is REALLY going on in the world - right under our very noses!

... As he writes on pages 31 and 32: "But Pearl Harbor has been much studied over the years. 9/11, it is plain, is never going to be investigated if our secretive junta has anything to say about it. At the end of January '02, CNN reported: President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the Congressional investigation into the events of September 11, Congressional and White House sources told CNN. ... The request was made at a private meeting with Congressional leaders. ... Sources said Bush initiated the conversation. ... He asked that only the House and Senate intelligence committees look into the potential breakdowns among federal agencies that could have allowed the terrorist attacks to occur, rather than a broader inquiry that some lawmakers have proposed. ... Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same request ... " The excuse given, according to Daschle, was that an investigation "would take resources and personnel away" from the war on terrorism in the event of a wider inquiry that is not limited to the assumption that the administration's inaction was solely a consequence of "breakdowns among federal agencies." So for reasons that we must never know, those "breakdowns" are to be the goat. That they were more likely to be not break but "stand-downs" is not for us to pry. Certainly, the hour-twenty-minute failure to put fighter planes in the air could not have been due to a breakdown throughout the entire Air Force along the East Coast. Mandatory standard operating procedure had been told to cease and desist." ... Heavy stuff, indeed! - The Aeolian Kid

It was very interesting to see the conservative media constantly distort Vidal's position. Gore is a true republican - someone who yearns for a return to the days when people and politicians actually paid attention to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This includes worrying more about what's going on in our own backyards (besides trying to cancel out peoples' civil liberties) instead of putting military bases all over the world and having secret governmental agencies (who do not have to submit their budgets to Congress under the ever tiresome guise of "national security") overthrow governments they don't like (Guatemala and, more recently, Haiti, are prime examples).

On pages 152 and 153, Vidal accurately sums up present-day politics and the state of presidential elections: "He who can raise the most money to buy time on television is apt to be elected President by that half of the electorate that bothers to vote. Since the same corporations pay for our two-party, one-party system, there is little or no actual politics in these elections. But we do get a lot of sex. Also, he who subtly hates the blacks the most will always win a plurality of the lily-white-hearted. The word "liberal" has been totally demonized, while "conservative," the condition of most income-challenged Americans, is being tarnished by godly pressure groups whose symbols are the fetus and the flag."

And in case you're saying that Vidal's claims of Americans empire are hooey: "Today, elsewhere, we have military presence in Bermuda, Egypt, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Panama, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., not to mention all over the United States and our territories as well as two bases in Australia, one of which is a mysterious CIA unit at Alice Springs. If all this does not constitute an empire, I don't know what does." (page 162)

Though written in 1997, Vidal proves to be a visionary (page 134): "Although the United States may yet, in support of Israel, declare war on 1 billion Muslims, the Europeans will stay out. They recall 1529, when the Turks besieged Vienna not as obliging guest workers but as world conquerors. Never again."

As a die-hard Dem, I became very disenchanted with Roosevelt and Truman as I read about their back door antics during World War II and at the start of the Cold War (shame on you, Harry!).

It's time to end the misery and overthrow the never elected junta occupying the White House and get back to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.