It's cached at The Boston Globe, but it's taking its own sweet time to load.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/31/bush_gives_new_reason_for_iraq_war/"CORONADO, Calif. -- President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists."
The more recent quote was about the same, as I recall.
In other words, it's been out there for a YEAR.
On edit: "Bush said extremists controlling Iraq "would use energy as economic blackmail" and try to pressure the United States to abandon its alliance with Israel. At a stop in Missouri on Friday, he suggested that such radicals would be "able to pull millions of barrels of oil off the market, driving the price up to $300 or $400 a barrel."
Oil is not the only reason Bush offers for staying in Iraq, but his comments on the stump represent another striking evolution of his argument on behalf of the war. The slogan of "no blood for oil" became a rallying cry for antiwar activists prior to the March 2003 invasion and angered administration officials. "There are certain things like that, myths, that are floating around," Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS Radio in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401025.htmlThat's the November 5, 2006 quote.