Title: Great title, shame about the content
Product review: I expected to learn a lot from this book. Sadly, it is written by an economist and the book is frequently... economical with the truth.Halliday's myth 27 is that "The US, backed by the UK, invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003 to gain control of Iraqi oil."The author proceeds to 'debunk' this 'myth' by reasoning that if oil is what Washington wanted it could simply have struck a deal with Saddam Hussein. Thankfully since then, some polititians have been a bit more honest. George Bush recently confessed that the US is 'addicted to oil' and few will have missed Bremner & Co's post invasion haste to privatise Iraq's national assets (ie. Iraq's oil industry).The West's violent addiction to cheap Middle Eastern oil clearly is NO MYTH. So Halliday's decision to gloss over this with 100 words begs the question - how far is the author's intention to reveal the truth about the Middle East and how far to conceal the truth about us?Great title. Shame about the content.
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