Ebbie, it is entirely possible that there was a high level conspiracy, but that Bush himself was not aware of what was going on. He could have been left out of "the loop" on that, and so could any number of people. You do not need everyone in high places in a government to know what is going on with a secret operation, you only need the few key people who make it happen.

So just as a theory, nothing more than that...what if Cheney was in on it and Bush wasn't? Or what if Rumsfeld was in on it? Or some other people like that?

Bush looked to me like a man who didn't know what the hell was going on on that morning. He looked frozen in that Florida classroom, like he just didn't know what to do.

What if Mr Bush was being manipulated by some far more clever conspirators, and what if he is still being manipulated...just like a little puppet? Mr Bush strikes me as a man, who even more than many people, usually believes what he wants to believe. Such people are easily led astray.