America, the imperial power. In W's two years, we have extended our empire to numerous countries which we attacked unprovoked. Countries such as...uh...Well Norman Mailer said so, so it must be true.

Celebrated American novelist Normal Mailer believes that President George Bush’s decision to launch a war against Iraq flows from his conviction that America should dominate the world militarily and politically.

Describing the President as a man “who has never been embarrassed by himself,” the author asserts that by invading Iraq and removing Saddam Hussein, Bush thinks he will have avenged the September 11 attacks.

And the ever popular "it's all about the oil"

Mailer writes that two more reasons for the war against Iraq are oil and fresh water. He quotes Ralph Nader to point out that the US currently consumes 19.5 million barrels of oil or 26 percent of the world supply. Around 9.8 million barrels of this oil have to be imported. The surest way for the US to sustain its overwhelming dependence on oil is to control 67 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves that lie below the sands of the Persian Gulf. Iraq alone has proven reserves of 112.5 billion barrels, or 11 percent of the world’s remaining supply. Only Saudi Arabia has more. If the US occupies Iraq, argues Mailer, “it will also gain a chokehold on Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Near East.

Mailer quoting Nader. Now I know that it must be fact.