The libs' "reasoning" goes something like this:
Bush and his neocon cronies decided to go to war with Iraq in order to enrich themselves, primarily by getting bogus contracts for Halliburton, where Cheney used to preside.
The fact that Bush would jeopardize his re-election possibilities merely to make his wealthy buddies even wealthier doesn't pass a basic test of common sense. The libs are always ready to assign conspiratorial reasons to republicans, but they are willing to let slide the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich (one of a million examples), which, apparently, Bill did out of the goodness of his heart and pure compassion.
Agreed.
Ten days before the election I was filling my tank at the local Sam's Club and I was shooting the breeze with the old timer watching the pumps. I made some comment about gas prices going up and he responded that it was because Bush and his oil buddies were in charge. I responded that it would not make a lot of sense for them to raise gas prices just before an election. He didn't seem to get it - guess that's why he's working at Sam's.