I've never subscribed to the conspiracy theory that the Bush administration engineered the 9/11 attacks as a pretext for launching the Iraq aggression. I have no reason to doubt assertions that they were looking for a pretext to invade Iraq, as a former Bush cabinet member claims.
Even if they were so inclined, there's no way they'd have been competent enough to pull it off. Everything these guys have touched has turned to lead. What makes anyone think they could successfully execute such an intricate plan AND keep it secret?
NPR ran a good segment on why this is almost impossible to believe. Specifically, with the number of people that would've had to have been involved in such a plan, it's virtually inconceivable that it could've been pulled off with no leaks, even for an administration as secretive and opaque as this.
There have been conspiracies in the past. Watergate and Iran-Contra come immediately to mind. But each of those were brought to light precisely because somebody involved spilled the beans. The idea that the government could've engineered the mostly deadly murderous attack on American civilians in history without a single participant in the planning having enough qualms to tell someone is virtually inconceivable, even for the most cynical anti-Bush types.
The administration may be immorally indifferent to human life, but there's no way they could've done something like this without somebody talking.
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