You say you're not inclined to believe in in conspiracies, Joe?

But there are always conspiracies. Thousands and thousands of them, big and small, private and national. Every plan that is hatched in secret behind closed doors between two or more people who have little or no intention of revealing all its details to the entire world outside those doors IS a conspiracy.

It's a conspiracy whether or not it is a good plan or a bad plan, whether or not it has been hatched by criminal minds or public benefactors. It's a conspiracy when the "bad guys" do it, it's a conspiracy when the "good guys" do it.

Therefore, to say you are not inclined to believe in conspiracies is just downright silly. What you are really saying is that you are not inclined to believe in those conspiracies that didn't already occur to you or that you don't find agreeable to your view of the things are....... ;-)

The Bush administration has been hatching its own conspiracies since Day 1, regardless of whether or not it has to do with the Illuminati or some such group. That's what administrations do. They hatch conspiracies, they camouflage them under patriotic blather and propaganda and disinformation, and they hope most people will be fooled and that their conspiracy will achieve its intended goals.