For starters, read "The Grand Chessboard", by Zbigniew Brzezinski. The read the 90 page PNAC Manifesto. The internet bubble was already well on its way and the housing bubble was just starting.
Like I said....read, there's plenty out there.....right from the whoreses mouths:
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the administration, wrote to President Clinton in 1998 urging regime change in Iraq, but Clinton rebuffed them, saying his administration was focusing on dismantling al-Qaeda cells.