Elephants and Quagmires: Peak Oil and the Bush Denial

An administration full of oilmen, cognizant of ‘peak oil’ and America’s dependence upon a Middle East containing 60% of the world’s remaining cheap oil, faced with a dictator in oh so central and tempting, incredibly oil-rich Iraq, who as a sworn enemy was threatening oil flow not only from Iraq but from the wider Gulf, chose a military solution: shock and awe and regime change.