After reading "On the Brink" by Tyler Drumheller former chief of CIA Clandestine Operations - Europe, I see clearly how the Bush Administration managed to manipulate the American people into believing that we were in mortal danger from Saddam Hussein and his WMD's.  While at the same time ignoring warnings of flawed intelligence from an Iraqi defecter name "Curveball".   Obviously, Bush and Cheney saw a big opportunity to capture Hussein,  bomb and devastate Iraq,  take control of the oil there, give Cheney''s outfit Halliburton the rebuilding contracts and claim it was all to protect the American people.  If this wasn't a conspiracy, I don't know what else you would call it.  A conspiracy to go to war.  Now in light of the current  $147.00 a barrel for crude, you might say they were thinking ahead and perhaps the OPEC countries (with no love for America) were planning on cutting off our supply, holding it over our heads so to speak, or overcharging as they now are. After all Bush said plainly "that time eventually will tell his legacy".  Maybe he was doing a bad thing for good reasons?