The "smart" old-money yelled: "Don't rock the boat!"
They opposed the fanatical Neocons introduction, and the other old-money (mainly paleocons) supporting them.
Smart old-money like George Soros etc.
However, the Neocon ideology is that they - and only they - are equipped to lead. So they intervene strengthened on their radical ideas that they are the "rightful elite" (cognitive elite, managerial class) everywhere - politics, society, economy, abroad ...
I have mentioned this earlier, but the US population were "as under a spell" or enthralled by the rhetoric of the Neocon priesthood as they were bewildered after the 9/11 attacks. The same thing happened in Germany after they started becoming a player in geopolitics and resulting in WWI - then WWII after their second trauma (of WWI loss). Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine explains this phenomenon of intentionally creating shocks to exploit the psyche of the population.
Just like in Germany - the population shed themselves of all responsibility afterwards.
Rejecting old beliefs and dysfunctional systems is part of the "healing process" - adaption , evolution and progress.
Just like in boot camp - being molded into something else... and yes, I AM saying Bush was the Hitler persona of our generation.
That is IT in a nutshell.
Conspiracy theories are futile they are a false dichotomy or oxymorons.
You need to look at systems with neutrality - see how they are working, the current situation.
Then you look at the interactions - direct and influences/support.
Then you get a clear picture about systemic BIAS.
The systemic bias is a form of corruption, exploitation of systems.
You don't need to go any further than that - just analyse situations and systems - that will get you very far.
See the systems science links and other stuff on deductive system etc.
I CANNOT stress the importance of NOT being reductionist and NOT applying Occam's razor... they should be avoided.
A neutral systems analysis is democratic and egalitarian of all influences - not censoring in its nature.
Censoring/filtering and authoritarian views like reductionism are good for CREATING systems - not in UNDERSTANDING.