Oil a Motive for Aussies in Iraq

[Aliantha]

According to Mr Howard, our esteemed PM, the need to protect oil resources is a big part of the reason we're in iraq.

From here

Australia's defense minister said Thursday that protecting Iraq's oil supplies is one of his country's motivations for keeping troops in Iraq, adding a new government justification for its mission.

Defense Minister Brendan Nelson's inclusion of global energy security as a reason for keeping troops in Iraq is likely to ad weight to war protesters' arguments that the 2003 U.S.-led invasion was more an oil grab than a bid to uncover Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which proved to be nonexistent.

So here we go. What do you think about that?