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Source: Wall Street Journal

Published: August 30, 2005 Author: AP Staff

 

CORONADO, Calif. (AP)--President George W. Bush Tuesday answered growing anti- war protests with a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protecting that country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.

 

While in the past he has avoided making links between the war and Iraq's oil reserves, Bush used ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II to say that the Iraqi oil industry - and the wealth it could create - must not fall under the control of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida forces in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

 

"If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks.

 

"They'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition," Bush said standing in front of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan.

 

"We will defeat the terrorists," Bush said. "We will build a free Iraq that will fight terrorists instead of giving them aid and sanctuary.

 

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