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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. author Gore Vidal has denounced President George W. Bush as wanting the war on terror to go on forever and said some Americans were delighted that the September 11 attacks had singled out Muslims as the enemy. Remembering the attacks and the suffering they brought had become something of a 'new religion' for Americans, the outspoken writer said in an interview broadcast on the BBC World Service. 'First of all this is the anniversary of what is becoming more like a new religion than anything else in the United States,' Vidal, one of contemporary America's most prolific writers and harshest critics, told the 'East Asia Today' programme. 'Some people in the United States were rather delighted that it (the attacks) mobilised the entire country and focused on a single enemy, which we'd been demonising for quite some time -- the Muslim world. He (Bush) wants this to go on forever. He said to Congress after 9/11: 'It's going to be a long war'. He was thrilled.' Bush launched a global anti-terror campaign after four commercial planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001, and flown into New York's World Trade Centre, the Pentagon outside Washington and a field in Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people. The war began in Afghanistan, where a U.S.-led coalition toppled the Taliban government, which Washington said harboured militants blamed for the attacks. The Bush administration is now considering military action against Iraq, which it says is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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