It's the oil, stupid

Kissinger tells us the new reason why we are in Iraq:

But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option. American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

Nope, it's no longer to get rid of the WMD or to get rid of the horrible dictator or to establish a liberal democracy or to build schools or to save the women or whatever. It's to defeat Iran and to get oil.