Well guess no more. Among the litany of reasons for invading Iraq I think Bush has finally come as close as he is going to come as to why we are there:
During a speech in California, Bush came up with a whole new justification for the war in Iraq: It's about the oil.
Bush says that we've got to keep fighting in Iraq to keep the nation's oil supplies from falling into the wrong hands. "If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks; they'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions; they could recruit more terrorists by claiming an historic victory over the United States and our coalition," the president said
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/08/31/bushpoll/index.
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And for the last 30 days or so I thought the reason we were fighting there was to honor all those who had already been killed over there so their deaths would not be in vain. But that leads me to a thought, before the first person died why did we go fight there. Gosh, if only that first person would not have died we would not have to be there at all. Well until now when the president just came up with this reason.