The Conspiratorial Method

I loved this comment, by "Mutt", on a Hit and Run thread about peak oil.

No, I was marching around pointing out Cheney, Rumfeld et al were allies, bankrollers, & apologists of Hussien, and maybe should be behind bars.
It didnt occur to me til , jeez, only a year ago, or less, that maybe PUMPING Iraqs oil wasnt a goal, but keeping it in the ground, thus raising the price everywhere else- including fields owned/controlled by the same interests that own/control this current nitwit war.
Capisce?
i also was opposed to using US troops in a public war for private profit, but maybe thats just me......
And, since these things ARE gamed by governments, are you a "faith based" capital L libertarian?
Dont take this as rudeness, Mike, I appreciate your response.

This is as nice an example of the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" school of political opposition as we're likely to find. If the invasion leads to cheap oil, it is a imperial war by rapacious, overconsuming Americans who would drive their cars in the house if they could. If the invasion leads to expensive oil, it is an imperial war by rapacious capitalist profiteers run-amok, eager to screw the last dollar out of the poor, driving masses.

I also love the portrayal of the omniscient George Bush. Whatever results is what he intended. It can't just be that he was shooting for cheap oil and missed. If he got expensive oil, he was always intending to get expensive oil. That's part of why I read this things. I'm like the Jew who read anti-semitic trash; he liked every once in a while to read about how his people controlled the world and ruthlessly crushed their enemies.

Finally, I realized that Mutt has adopted the scientific method. If the theory doesn't match the observed facts, change the theory. The Enlightenment has finally come to conspiracy theory.