Bush gives new reason for war: Oil

It's not my headline, it is from the Boston Globe. (Well, OK, I added "oil" but that's what they meant, as you'll see.

Here's the lead paragraph of the AP story:

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.

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