31 David E. Sanger, “Bush Aide Says US, Not UN, Will Rebuild Iraq,” New
York Times, 4/5/2003; “Houston: We Have a Problem,” CorpWatch, 2004,
corp watch.org/article.php?id=11322,2/2007; Frances Fox Piven, The War at
Home (New York: New Press, 2006), 17-18.
32 Lappé and Marshall, True Lies, 120; cf. Linda McQuaig, “Iraq’s Oil,” ZNet
9/27/2004, at netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/21/iraqs-oil , 10/2006.
33 “Western Companies May Get 75% of Iraqi Oil Profits,” Dow Jones
Newswires, 1/8/2007, Market Watch website,
marketwatch.com/news/story/western-companies-may-get-75/story.
34 Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995), 1.
35 See The Memory Hole, thememoryhole. org/war/no-saddam-qaeda.htm
2/2007, for transcript of 1/31/2003 press conference, and Think Progress,
thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/bush-on-911/, 2/2007, for video of Bush saying
“nothing” in response to question asking what evidence linked September 11
and Iraq. Later the 9/11 Commission found “no evidence of an operational link
between Iraq and Al Qaeda,” according to Seymour Hersh, Chain of
Command (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005), 210-11. See also Lynd and
Mirra, “I Am a Revisionist Historian.”
36 Amy Gerkshoff and Shana Kushner, “Shaping Public Opinion: The 9/11-
Iraq Connection in the Bush Administration’s Rhetoric,” Perspectives on
Politics 3 no. 3 (9/2005), 525.
37 Fallows, Blind Into Baghdad, 155- 63; cf. Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco (New
York: Penguin, 2006), and Nancy Trejos and K. I. Ibrahim, “A Call to Hussein-
Era Soldiers,” Washington Post, 12/17/2006.
38 Fallows, Blind Into Baghdad, 146; Bush quoted, 167.
39 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 207,
gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB207/index.htm, 12/2007; Ivan Eland,
“Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record”
(Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1998); Walter Pincus, “Before War, CIA
Warned of Negative Outcomes,” Washington Post, 6/3/2007.