I remember sitting in my parent's room one morning with them and they turned on a channel with some movie about GWB for a bit and it was this scene where Bush or someone is talking about how if they invade Iraq they will pin in Iran and something about oil and that always stuck with me for some reason even when I was kind of chuddy.

I think it's that way with alot of stuff, first you try and justify it to yourself and after awhile you can't, atleast that's what happened to me but I was a kid/teenager when I grappled with this stuff.