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Article: Authors offer different views of what led the U.S. to invade Iraq.(America's Oil Wars; Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq)(Book Review)
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- October 7, 2005
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AMERICA'S OIL WARS By Stephen Pelletiere Praeger, 192 pages, $34.95
GULLIVER UNBOUND: AMERICA'S IMPERIAL TEMPTATION AND THE WAR IN IRAQ By Stanley Hoffmann, with Frederic Bozo Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 153 pages, $79.95
In America's Oil Wars, former CIA analyst and U.S. Army War College professor Stephen Pelletiere analyzes the United States' recent wars in Iraq in the context of U.S, policy in the Middle East since the 1950s. Dr. Pelletiere begins by chronicling how U.S. oil companies gradually broke the British hold on Middle Eastern oil. They pushed President Eisenhower into overthrowing Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq, who had ...