Darth Cheney, Vice President and puppet master, was one of the chief architects of the Project for a New American Century. (PNAC) which is the precoursor to the bipartian CNAS
They yearned for a new Pearl Harbor to drag the nation into endless war profiteering. That New Pearl Harbor was certianly it wasn't an inside job!
in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group (PNAC) predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."
That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.