no war for oil?

from Youssef M. Ibrahim, USA Today:

Instead of rosy promises by the neoconservatives of the Bush administration who pushed for the invasion, partly on the premise that they would turn it into America's private gasoline-pumping station, the contrary has occurred.

The world has lost Iraq's oil.

In the aftermath of the swift military victory, aided greatly by the unprecedented retreat and refusal to fight by the mostly conscripted Iraqi army, a major priority for U.S. troops when the looting began was to protect the Iraqi Oil Ministry offices instead of civilian sites such as museums, hospitals, universities, and scientific facilities.

Where is the money that was budgeted for reconstruction of the oil infrastructure? Why is there apparently no significant effort underway to secure pipelines from sabotage? How can the Bush administration justify the corruption and misuse of authority that is now taking place in the new Allawi administration?

If this was indeed a war, in part, for oil, as the actions of those troops showed during the looting, the Bush administration has lost it.

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