Ex-Intelligence chief calls operation "cheeky";

“And then the real overselling were the continual assessments of an imminent terrorist attack in London, advising housewives to lay in stocks of water and food, I mean all that stuff ... tanks at Heathrow. I mean that, I call that overselling."

A coherent account of the oil argument;

“America's war on terrorism is often viewed as a scramble for black gold. There is a logic to this.”