Information channels into the White House were distorted. Bush wanted only certain information, and that's mostly what they supplied him with.. The only people benefiting in this war are Bush's friends in the oil industry.
for the interview with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, click on
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,409710,00.html
Original: "The War is Bad for the Economy": Joseph Stiglitz