Oil Men or Straw Men?
Our reviewer finds accusations against Bush, Cheney and American SUV-drivers misplaced December 2004
The main theme of Linda McQuaig’s new book, It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet, is the argument that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to secure access to and maintain long-term control of its “massive” oil reserves, supposedly “at least 10% of the world’s oil.”…