Let's not forget the "family honor" of Caesar Bush at stake as well.

Can you imagine how much money Halliburton will make---Chaney must be laughing his butt off..thumbing his nose at us all...

No surprise...this was the plan from day one..enrich all the friends of Bush and Cheney.

I can only hope that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Rove, etc.. are charged with war crimes and sent to spend their last days on earth at the Guantanamo Country Club!

Thanks for the heads up Adam. 

Adam, have you heard the saying, "You're so full of crap, your eyes are brown."?  An American oil company signing one contract out of 22 in the Kurdistan region only, is a looong way from proof that  "Iraq- It really was all about the oil".   

Maybe Barack Hussein will give an *unambiguous* statement regarding his position about this.  But I won't hold my breath. 

Personal attacks...the point is that the Bush administration claimed no knowledge of Hunts interests~when apparently they did.  

""Bottom line: Ray L. Hunt, the company's chief executive and a Texan closely allied politically to President Bush, serves on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. As the company prepared to sign oil contracts with the regional government of Kurdistan, the State Department did not try to discourage it--although the deal undercut the central Iraqi government and ran contrary to U.S. government policy, which the Times notes is "to warn companies that they incur risks in signing contracts until Iraq passes and oil law...""

Yeah, it's ok to lie if it helps polarize people against President Bush.  Sorry, I keep forgeting.  It must be all that Hope and Change I'm confused with.

No I do not think your confused at all. 

Dril, my eyes are blue. Sorry you cannot provide an iota of information to refute any of the findings that have been uncovered in Congress, or by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Thanks for taking the time to comment on the story with your usual clarity  and wit to let everyone know how you feel. If you honestly think someone has to lie, or in any way distort President Bush's record, to help polarize this nation  you are very mistaken. His record of deceit and partisanship for strictly political purposes and  cronyism stands on its own all by itself.  In the future, why not attempt a response that deals with the blog post itself instead of the person who posted it.

Adam, quit being ignorant.  Your title insinuates that the Iraq invasion was *all* about oil, yet the articles offer no proof to that assertion.  Your incessant whining and blubbering about what a bad, bad man Bush is, ain't a gonna get him charged, impeached, or anything else and he will leave office on January 20, 2009 as scheduled brushing off all the venom and hatred you and your unhinged throw at him.  You need to get over that and start worrying about the excuses you'll need for defending B. Hussein's idiocy.

Dril, you continue to try and make this personal. The post here is not how you choose to describe it. 75% of the American public are fed up with George W. Bush and his performance as President. Bush chose to call himself the "Decider." I didn't make up the name. The war in Iraq was presented to the American public under the cloud of 9/11 and Iraq's supposed complicity with agents of terrorism who were behind the events of that day. It was then molded into WMD and the threat to America should Saddam unleash his powerful weapons. When the links to 9/11 proved false and no WMDs were found it turned into democracy building. None of those marketing campaigns to the American public were the truth. I won't bore you with Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, or the entire Alberto Gonzales affairs with the Justice Department and getting torture to be included as part of America's new interrogation procedures, or circumventing FISA to spy on any American making an overseas call or computer connection.  All those events are well chronicled and their stories continue to play themselve out to the public through books, articles and public hearings.  As more stories unfold about our oil company involvement and the deals that are in the works in Iraq the truth about our war has become quite clear, even if you refuse to acknowledge it.

"The release of the documents comes as the administration is defending help that United States officials provided in drawing up a separate set of no-bid contracts, still pending, between Iraq’s Oil Ministry in Baghdad and five major Western oil companies to provide services at other Iraqi oil fields.

In the no-bid contracts, the administration said it had provided what it called purely technical help writing the contracts. The United States played no role in choosing the companies, the administration has said.

Disclosure of those contracts has provided substantial fuel to critics of the Iraq war, both in the United States and abroad, who contend that the enormous Iraqi oil reserves were a motivation for the American-led invasion — an assertion the administration has repeatedly denied."

You are certainly entitled to you opinion. I think much of the cumulative evidence would convince any jury that It has always been about the oil.

Nothing personal on this end.  I'll be watching to see where this breaking story, that will ultimately sink the bush administration in impeachment hearings, appears on the nightly news tonight.  I mean come on, this is the holy grail story for the left.  Finally, the *proof* that the United States of America invaded Iraq so that a small texas oil company could get a deal with the Kurds to produce some oil.  Fightin' windmills...

Adam -- I really thought you more intelligent than that..........

You have relegated yourself to the minions of the Maggies, etc..................

I would have given you more credit than that, however there were hints in your posts that the  "old style Jimmy Carter Liberal" would come out at some point.

It has................................

Crude oil is now at $144 a barrel, just as Osama bin Laden wanted.

"Mission Accomplished."

Remember this guy?  One of the bright spots of the Iraq war (well, if you can call getting medical help for a young boy injured in that very war a "bright spot").

The guy carrying him?  He's dead.  PTSD/overdose.

Half the American casualties of the Iraq War haven't been counted yet.

Careful what you say RF, you will soon be having to defend Hussein Obama when he decides he can't "remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months".