Review
"Stephen Pelletiere has been a journalist, a university professor (most recently at the National War College), the chief CIA analyst on Iraq from 1980-1988, and--beyond the sum of his parts--a historian. His 2001 book, Iraq and the International Oil System, was a unique and jarring re-ordering of known and little-known facts which pointed to a problem several layers deeper than what almost any other expert got to. His new work, America's Oil Wars promises to be no less provocative."-Roger Trilling, co-author of The Invisible War
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Pelleti re was the US Central Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq during the first US attack on it in 1991. Here he argues that the Bush administration lied about going to war, but did it because Saddam was poised to seize control of the oil cartel. He also says Iraq won the war against Iran (he has written a book about that), th
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