Conspiracy theories are usually
bogus theories dreamt up by wide-eyed madmen in order to explain the unexplainable, make possible the impossible and dupe the dupes.
The most widespread conspiracy theory - so far - of the early part of the
21-
st century was the
one concerning the existence or non-existence of WMD(Weapons of Mass Destruction) in Iraq and the dread intent of Iraq to use these weapons to launch a devastating attack on
Israel , the UK and possibly Cyprus.
This theory was first floated in Washington by a group of cranks calling themselves
neo-conservatives and quickly
spread like a contagion throughout most of the UK and the US.
However , most other countries of the world were immune to this contagion and treated it with skepticism.
Driven on by belief in their theory the devotees of it in the UK and US went on to attack and occupy Iraq in an attempt to eradicate these WMD.
However these weapons turned out to be nothing more than a brain-fever which had no more credibility or basis in
fact than a Donald Rumsfeld speech.
The idea that the invasion of Iraq was about
oil is no more than a conspiracy-theory. (Still said by some even after 8.8 billion dollars of post-invasion Iraqi
oil revenues were
reported missing in a report by US General Stuart Bowen to the US
congress in January 2005. )
