U.S. Author Slams Bush s War Says We Are Not The World s Policeman (by Gore Vidal)

LONDON, July 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A U.S. author has launched a blistering attack on U.S. president George W. Bush’s war on terror, a U.K. newspaper reported Wednesday.

In his latest book titled Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated, Gore Vidal raised several question marks, U.K. daily newspaper the Daily Mirror reported.

The outspoken 76-year-old said the U.S. provoked the September 11 attacks with its own military intervention in countries around the world, the paper said.

Staunch democrat Vidal, a former White House aide to John F. Kennedy, insisted the U.S. should stop meddling in other people's affairs.

In an interview with LA Weekly he said Bush's attack on Afghanistan was motivated by oil, not revenge.

He said that he does not think that the American people, deserved what happened nor do they deserve the sort of governments they have had over the past 40 years.

“The American governments have brought this upon us by their actions all over the world”, Vidal said.

He added that the Americans get misinformed by the New York Times and other official media and they are clueless to the extent of their government's mischief. The number of unprovoked U.S. military strikes against other countries, since 1947 exceeded 250, he said.

“The government plays off Americans' relative innocence, or ignorance to be more precise. This is probably why geography has not really been taught since World War II - to keep people in the dark as to where we are blowing things up,” he added.

“The Afghans had nothing to do with what happened to our country on September 11. It seems Osama is involved, but we don't really know.”

Vidal added that when the U.S. forces went into Afghanistan the commanding general was asked how long it was going to take to find bin Laden and that he looked surprised and said that this was not the reason the forces was there.

“What it was really about is that this is an imperial grab for energy resources. Until now, the Persian Gulf has been the main source for imported oil. That is why the U.S. forces went there, to Afghanistan, not to get Osama and vengeance, but for other purposes.”

“We went partly because the Taliban were getting too flaky and because Unocal, the California corporation, had made a deal with the Taliban for a pipeline to get the Caspian-area oil - the richest oil reserve on Earth”, he said.

“We had planned to occupy Afghanistan in October, and Osama, or whoever hit us in September, launched a pre-emptory strike. They knew we were coming. This was a warning to throw us off guard,” Vidal added.

In his answer to the question regarding what the Americans thought of Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks, especially on the issue of the war, he said: “after 9/11 the country was shocked and terrified.”

“Bush does a war dance and talks about evil axis and all the countries he's going to go after. And how long it is going to take, he says with a happy smile, because it means billions for the Pentagon and for his oil friends.

And it means curtailing our liberties, so this is very thrilling for him. He's out there bombing Afghanistan. Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. Denmark had nothing to do with September 11. And neither did Afghanistan,” said Vidal.

He concluded, “Everything here is slanted. I mean to watch Bush doing his war dance in Congress...about "evil doers" and this "axis of evil" - Iran, Iraq and North Korea. I thought, he doesn't even know what the word axis means.”

He added that the U.S. should withdraw its military troops from all around the world and go home. “We are not the world's policeman. We cannot even police the United States.”

The Afghans had nothing to do with what happened to our country on September 11. It seems Osama is involved, but we don't really know.

Maybe the video where Osama declares to have done it might give us a clue?

We had planned to occupy Afghanistan in October, and Osama, or whoever hit us in September, launched a pre-emptory strike. They knew we were coming. This was a warning to throw us off guard
Denmark had nothing to do with September 11. And neither did Afghanistan This guy is really deluded, must be a Democrat. Only they could believe things like this!

I have a great new title for this book:

Gore Vidal, How I Got To Be So Hated.

Ah yes, Gore Vidal. I've actually read several novels by Vidal including "Julian the Apostate" many years ago. It was a very good book. But here again we have the case of some writer who thinks he's a political and itellectual genius because he can write half way decent. From the quotes attributed to Vidal over the years it appears he has a huge dislike of his own country. These are the nuts who think anyone who doesn't share his or her view of the world is stupid and evil...like those wascally Wepublicans for example. Like many other leftists, Vidal is convinced that he knows what is what and that if Americans would just do like crackpots like him say we should do, all would be well. I'd rather follow the advice of your crazy uncle Earl...he's most likely saner than Vidal.

In an interview with LA Weekly he said Bush's attack on Afghanistan was motivated by oil, not revenge.

Prove it.

A boldface lie. I went to school in the 1980's and the early '90s. I was taught geography and American history (including the Constitution and Bill of Rights), in California even! I agree that the educational system has melted down in the last 8-10 years, however.

“The Afghans had nothing to do with what happened to our country on September 11. It seems Osama is involved, but we don't really know.”

Did the Taliban harbor Osama Bin Laden and his terror regime, or not?

Who asked him, and where is the documentation on his EXACT answer?

Source?

Gore Vidal is smoking some nice herbage... Toke a rip for me, pal!

Yeah, you're so intellectual, and President Bush is so "plain-spoken", right? These leftist collegiates are just too much. Mr. Vidal, do YOU know what axis means?

This guy is DEFINITELY AL Gore's cousin. The delusions of both intelligence and grandeur run high in their gene pool.

Yeah, Gore Vidal, a relative of Al Gore himself, was OK City bomber Timothy McVeigh's pen pal.

From the wacko left website DemocracyNow.org :

...AMY GOODMAN: Gore Vidal, you developed a relationship with Timothy McVeigh. Can you talk about that?
GORE VIDAL: I never met him, nor did we talk on the telephone, but we did exchange letters, he read a piece I wrote in Vanity Fair, about the shredding of the Bill of Rights, which has been further shredded since his death, and he wrote me a letter, and I wrote him back, and he wrote me some very informative letters about himself, he was very smart, knew the constitution backwards and forwards...

Gore Vidal quoted McVeigh in his book. How accurately, I don't know.

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