CarolC's post of 08 Sep 08 - 11:08 PM, the sting comes in the tail:

"Remember, I said "within the realm of possibility". I did not say I considered it to be fact. There's a big difference, and until someone proves that it didn't happen this way, it remains within the realm of possibility, no matter how much huffing and puffing anyone wants to do here in this thread."

Anything can dwell "within the realm of possibility" CarolC and as such it is pointless to discuss them unless you are working towards migrating them to "probability", in which case hard evidence has to be considered as opposed to subjective opinion from biased sources.

Is it possible that a former lobbyist based in the USA engineered a conflict between a tiny state against its extremely powerful neighbour, that the tiny state would know it had no hope of winning just to help a candidate win the US Presidential Election in November 2008? Yes I suppose it is possible.

Is the same thing probable - I would say that it would be highly unlikely, there are far too many unknowns and variables for such a plan to ever have even the remotest chance of success.