Iraq is all about the war on terror. Oh yeah, I'm SURE it is now. From AP:
Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force appeared to have some interest in early 2001 in Iraq's oil industry, including which foreign companies were pursuing business there, according to documents released Friday by a private watchdog group.These guys were carving up Iraq well before 9/11. There is no doubt that the reason that the President can't admit a mistake in Iraq is because there WAS NO MISTAKE. We were going to war with Iraq regardless of what happened on 9/11. We were going regardless of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Regardless of "Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Activities" (my personal favorite). I guess I can now add corruption in the UN Oil for Food Program as another reason we went to war.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, obtained a batch of task force-related Commerce Department papers that included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields, terminals and pipelines as well as a list entitled "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oilfield Contracts."...
The papers were dated early March 2001, about two months before the Cheney energy task force completed and announced its report on the administration's energy needs and future energy agenda....
"Opponents of the war are going to point to the documents as evidence that oil was on the minds of the Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq," said Fitton.
But there is no mistake? If there is no mistake Mr. President, then when are you going to tell the American public what, deep down, you believe going to war in Iraq was all about. Nothing you've said about Iraq to date even comes close to the truth.
