to figure out what kind of drugs the Bush team was smoking... until you think about this proxy war idea.

Bushco plays favorites with the Saudis and they're decisive about putting the Iranians up as "The Evildoers", but how does that narrative fit taking out Saddam and replacing him with a Shiite government? It only makes sense if you were actually looking to get a proxy war started between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Maybe that was the point all along? It's just the kind of "let them destroy each other" strategery that you would expect from certain of the neocons.