Rap, that is exactly what Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and various other luminaries in the late 90s New World Order planning crew had in mind when they wanted to launch some wars to get control of Middle Eastern and Caspian oil....but they needed to somehow get the American public to acquiese, despite the fact that no nation in this world would be stupid enough to provide an excuse by openly attacking the USA and providing a "Pearl Harbour level event".

The answer is simple. Just as you said.

"There is no problem in politics which is so big or so complicated that it cannot be solved by the proper calculation and placement of the correct amount of high explosives." And by well orchestrated media coverage too, of course, but that's inevitable, so why worry?