Sunday evening, December 15, should go into the history books as the day that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld emphatically assured Americans that the Administration’s willingness to invade Iraq is in no way connected to the issue of oil.  “60 Minutes” ran an interview by Steve Kroft in which Rumsfeld made this statement.  Rumsfeld could not have been more emphatic.  Kroft then interviewed other interested parties, all of whom assured him that oil is a factor in America’s foreign policy goals in Iraq.  Nobody who appeared on the show believed Rumsfeld.  That means that the producers of “60 Minutes” didn’t … Continue reading Our Enemy, the Warfare State