[19] Gary S. Becker, “Why War with Iraq Is Not about Oil,” Business Week (17 March 2003): 30.
[20] Johnathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002).
[21] Melinda K. Ruby, “Is Oil the Driving Force to War?” unpublished Senior thesis, Dept. of Economics and Finance, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (spring 2004), 10.
[22] As quoted in Ruby, Ibid., P. 13.
[23] As cited by Roger Burbach, “Bush Ideologues vs. Big Oil: The Iraq Game Gets Even Stranger,” http://www.counterpunch.org/burbach10032003.html
[24] Israel Shamir, The Writings of Israel Shamir, Contributor 45, http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor45.htm
[25] Stephen F. Cohen “The New American Cold War,” The Nation (10 July 2006), http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060710/cohen ; as quoted in Shamir, Ibid.
[26] Shamir, Ibid.
[27] Ruby, “Is Oil the Driving Force to War?” pp. 14-15; see also Herman Franssen and Elaine Morton, “A Review of U.S. Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran,” Middle East Economic Survey 45, no. 34 (26 August 2002), pp. D1-D5 (D section contains op eds. as opposed to staff-written articles).
[28] Ruby, “Is Oil the Driving Force to War?” pp. 16-17; see also David Ivanovich, “Conoco’s Chief Blasts Sanctions,” Houston Chronicle (12 February 1997).
[29] On this issue see, for example, Chalmers Johnson , Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000), 87-88.
[30] The statement was widely reported by many news papers and other media outlets. See, for example, The Guardian (4 June 2003), http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/aboutoil.htm
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, author of the recently published The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.
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