Without WMDs, it's got to be the oil

KEY QUOTES:

"No weapons of mass destruction have been found. What we do have are sniper shootings, grenade attacks and the deaths of nearly 50 U.S. soldiers 48 days after Bush said major combat operations were over in Iraq."

"On May 1, Bush said, 'We've begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated.'"

"Seven weeks later and with no vile vials in hand, Bush gave a speech Monday in Elizabeth, N.J., where he did not make a single reference to weapons of mass destruction. Instead, Bush chose to distract Americans from his Nixonian erasing of his justification for war by criticizing his critics as 'revisionist historians.'"

"Meanwhile, Bush's fellow Republicans in Congress were suppressing history by fighting any formal investigation into the possible cooking of intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein."