Mark LeVine

Mark LeVine, associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, is the author of Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld).

Waist Deep in Big Oil

November 22, 2005

While political pressure is mounting for a pullout from Iraq, the subject of total withdrawal remains unbroachable within the political establishment. Control of the Iraq's oil reserves, from the beginning, was the Bush Administration's real reason for this war.

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