I like my conspiracy theory better.
Nixon started it with his oil embargos to drive up the price of domestic oil. Ford was an idiot and sat on his hands too long and OPEC pulled back on their production so that their prices would match the rates the US suppliers were charging - hey the sheiks were getting screwed out of revenue per barrel and wanted their piece of the action! To keep the sheiks at bay, Carter went to Egypt back in the '70s to broker a deal for Russian white slave prostitutes being ferried inside empty missile tubes (the whole "peace with Israel" thing was just a cover to set up a diamond cartel). Kissinger went along with it because he was part of the secret diamond cartels in West Germany selling stones shipped through Tel Aviv and his NY connections completed the precious gemstone triad between Moscow and South Africa, so he knew he could get diamonds across borders if he kept mum on the prostitute thing. Those diamonds were being mined by al Queda cells who used the funds to purchase US Sidewinders - the same missiles bringing down Soviet MiL helicopters in Afghanistan in the '80s! Reagan was in on it, which is why the Iranian Muslim fundamentalists held the US hostages in '79 until after the US presidential election was over - Carter could get off scot-free since he was no longer in office but was still entitled to immunity from prosecution overseas! Khomeini was all about the oil but he bartered in diamonds to keep the market up. He knew he could only keep power so long as he had the diamond merchants backing him up. Bush learned all about this during Reagan's turn in the White House and used those connections to expand the white slave prostitution ring and diamond brokering operation into Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm so that he could get friendly oil rates in exchange for white slaves. Clinton risked blowing the whole thing apart. Clinton "got high on his own supply" which is where Lewinsky fit into the picture. When that white prostitution scandal hit the papers, Clinton had to back off on the oil and diamond operations. You ever wonder why Clinton remained in office? Because he had the oil and diamond guys backing him up! They knew where Clinton stood and they wanted to keep him in office rather than risk some loose cannon blowing the lid off the whole thing. So along comes Bush Part Two and he's back after Iraq. Coincidence? I think not! He's pushing his dad's agenda - OIL!
