Cheney very much had a plan. It was G W Bush’s job to play the ass-clown, since admitting to that plan would have been electoral suicide.

“We’ll use 9/11 as an excuse to attack a country that had no connection to 9/11 and that has been killing any Al-Qaida supporters in their own country, in order to steer tons of money into contracts for Halliburton to rebuild the oil infrastructure we’ll destroy. And meanwhile the oil price will be higher because Iraq will be offline. And Blair will help us lie about reasons for the war.”