>The ins (Bushees) management of the US hegemony under conditions of
>bubblebursting is way more difficult than was the outs (Clintees) under
>conditions of bubbling. With counterfactuals there's no point in
>arguing, but my guess is that the outs would have also gone for creating
>a military emergency as one of the tools available to manage the US
>capitalist empire system at this potentially nasty stage of things.
But Cheney & Co. have been gunning for Iraq, as part of a major Middle Eastern map rethink, for over 10 years. The timing just before the election is suspicious, but otherwise, this is a long-standing obsession of the right.
Doug