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So Now Iraq Is For Oil, Bush Admits
By Matthew Rothschild
October 12, 2006

At his press conference on Wednesday, Bush brought up the dirty little word three times as a reason for the United States now to stay in Iraq. Throughout the lead-up to the war and well past the fall of Baghdad, oil was the great unmentionable.

But now Bush himself is mentioning it.

At his press conference on Wednesday, he brought up the dirty little word three times as a reason for the United States now to stay in Iraq.

“We can’t tolerate a new terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, with large oil reserves that could be used to fund its radical ambitions, or used to inflict economic damage on the West,” he said the first time.

“Extreme elements” in Iraq “want to control oil resources,” he said at second reference.

“They’ve got the capacity to use oil as an economic weapon,” he said the third time.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx101206