Is Big Oil Lubricating War Drive?
By Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin is the author of “The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth” (Tarcher/Putnam, 2002). October 25 2002 Does the Bush administration have a hidden agenda? If you want to know how utterly estranged Europe and the United States have become, listen to the talk in the streets over the possible U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the U.S., most Americans believe President Bush when he says we have a moral obligation to protect the world from Saddam Hussein’s pathological desire to build and employ weapons of mass destruction. In Europe, by contrast, most people believe that the U.S. is planning to invade Iraq to secure its oil fields. So, while most Americans think that we are planning an attack on Iraq to save the world from a madman, most Europeans think that Bush is the madman, with the evil intention of grabbing a foothold in the oil-rich Middle East to extend the “American empire.” And the media on both si
