This would have been a brilliant scheme if they had been able to pull it off. With a few master strokes (plus many innocent lives), Bush and Cheney could have gained control of a significant portion of the world's oil supply; broken OPEC; paid back Saddam Hussein for trying to assassinate Bush-41 and looked heroic for deposing a tyrant; paid for the war itself; mitigated the adverse effects of the Bush tax cuts on the budget surplus; reduced the national debt and the trade deficit; provided huge windfall profits for rich friends and political cronies in the construction, oilfield services, and oil refining industries; and made it all look free.
Was this the real reason for the Iraq War? I don't know; none of us may ever know. But it's a scenario that might have worked. If only we had been greeted as liberators.
(Writer's note: I intentionally avoid using the abbreviation "WMD" for "weapons of mass destruction" here. No device capable of annihilating of thousands of people at a time should be accorded such a casually convenient handle. Mass destruction is inconvenient; the terms used to describe its instruments must be inconvenient too.)
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