So it was about Oil

Dubya has changed his tune and and has recently been citing oil as a reason to stay in Iraq. If the United States pulled its troops out prematurely and surrendered the country to insurgents, he warns audiences, it would effectively hand over Iraq's considerable petroleum reserves to terrorists who would use it as a weapon against other countries.

"You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources and would use energy as economic blackmail and try to pressure the good old US of A,"

Back in 2002, Rummie and his sidekicks stated that "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil."

A White House apparatchick, said recently, that Bush's latest argument does not reflect a real shift. "We're still not saying we went into Iraq for oil. That's not true. But there is the realistic strategic concern that if a country with such enormous oil reserves and the corresponding revenues you can derive from that is controlled by essentially a terrorist organization, it could be destabilizing for the region."

And what Dubya and his buddies are doing at present is not destabilising???