"This war on terrorism is bogus"

'The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.'

By Sam Kington on June 9, 2003 3:12 PM

Michael Meacher, ex Environment Minister in the Blair government and someone who, I always felt, talks a lot of sense, claims in the Guardian today that the US deliberately ignored warnings about the September 11th attacks because it wanted a pretext to take control by force of the world's major oil supplies. In the middle of the Hutton enquiry, talk about a bombshell.

(Via Charlie's blog.)