Bus: US must stay in Iraq to control Oil (really?!! this was always the plan)

[katty]

excerpt: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15473.htm

Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil And Protect Israel

Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East

By Raw Story

11/02/06 "Raw Story" -- -- During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources."

"Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you," Bush said. "I am deeply concerned about a country, the United States, leaving the Middle East."

Bush said that he was "worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West."

"People say, 'What do you mean by that?'" The president continued. "I say, 'If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon

[libodem]

1. Why didn't he just say so in the first place?

First it's the WMD's, and then it's to punish Saddam, then it's a freedom march. I wish he'd quit flip/flopping.