15th June 2010, 11:31 PM
Yeah I'd put the whole "the pres did it for oil" thing right up there. Yes I think the war was stupid, and there's clearly been some deception, but it's giving them too much credit with zero reason to think it's the case to suppose they did it secretly for oil. If only! At least THEN I could consider it an evil genius plot. The reality is a lot more mundane, and depressing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)