Bush's "noble cause" revealed

It's still not clear how the war in Iraq is a "noble cause", as Bush describes it.

But maybe now we're starting to see the true cause, be it noble or otherwise.

Yesterday's New York Times led with a report that four big Western oil companies -- Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and BP -- are "in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power."

There you go.

Saddam had kicked out the big oil companies run by Bush's and Cheney's buddies. Now Saddam is out of the way, and those companies can take over the Iraqi oil again and rake in lots of money.

Remember what Bush told the Iraqi people just before the invasion, when he gave Saddam 48 hours to leave Iraq: "In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells."

Is this what 4,101 of our troops have died for?