‘New American Century’

But whatever our worries for the next fifty years are, this would surely feature near the bottom of the list; and even if it were closer to the top, overthrowing Saddam Hussain to ensure oil supplies ranks as the least plausible of strategies. Yet, there exist evidences that this is what was on Bush’s mind when his government shift ed its focus from the search for Osama bin Laden to fighting a war in Iraq. The overthrow of Saddam was the longstanding pet idea of the neo-conservative project for a ‘New American Century’, which was already arguing in the 1990s that Saddam was likely to achieve a stranglehold over a significant proportion of the world’s oil supplies. Vice-President Dick Cheney reiterated these fears in the run-up to the Iraq War, thus claiming that Saddam was building a massive arsenal of mass-destructive weapons to gain control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies.

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