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^^ I've looked into that, and it doesn't add up. For one, oil didn't become cheap. We didn't get cheap oil to be honest until the 2008 market crash resulted in the vampiric presence of the oil speculators fleeing the market, which revealed the true S&D driven price of oil. This was exhibited in ~$1.80ish gas at the pumps, and the terrible meme that GWB gave us cheap gas, when in fact that was just the economy in flames on his exit, lol.

Cui Bono indeed, and the best I can find is :

Big no-bid contracts to close administration benefactors

and

HIGHER priced oil, which vastly enriched some very powerful people

Think about it, what good does cheap oil do someone like GWB&Co? Nothing. Expensive oil, or predictably rising price oil? Now that's a different story.

You seem an intelligent and interested person, so read this and let me know your thoughts :

http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/72818:matt-taibbi--the-great-iraq-swindle