In my opinion, this is the early stages of 911. Right before or just after Bush Sr. Became president, the US sold Saddam Hussein 3 printing presses just like the ones we use to print our currency. Do you recall (I don't know if you're old enough) the pallets of money the troops were recovering every time they got another high level official in Iraq or the pallets of money in the presidential palace? Our economy was about to hit the crapper at the end of Reagan's term and I believe it was a way to expand the money supply without having it on the books. I have a feeling Saddam Hussein (our one time buddy) got greedy and tried to use the printing presses to help himself and that's why even though Iraq had nothing to do with it, we went after him. It would not have been wise to admit to the world what we conspired to do because confidence in our currency would have tanked. Do you recall the banking crisis when it was Obama against McCain? Remember how we redesigned and changed out our currency right after ? There were a lot of fake $100 bills going around back then and every bill deposited in the bank got scanned. I had a few confiscated and they looked perfect to me. Couldn't get any store to accept a $100 bill back then because it was so bad. Yeah, I think we did 911, with the Saudis and Israel knew about it at the very least (maybe even assisted). Building 7 had to come down because that's were the evidence was, the towers were just a diversion. I don't think younger Bush wanted to do it, but he really had no choice, the country would have become a 3rd world nation. It's why I keep saying, heavy is the head that wears the crown. I think Afghanistan was just an opportunity to put a long term military base in close proximity to Russia and China. Didn't work out so hot, did it.