According to Mr Howard, our esteemed PM, the need to protect oil resources is a big part of the reason we're in iraq.
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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.
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So here we go. What do you think about that?