As usual, when any member of the Bush administration's lips are moving, they're lying.  From the NYTimes comes this: "For its part, the administration has repeatedly denied steering the Iraqis toward decisions. “Iraq is a sovereign country, and it can make decisions based on how it feels that it wants to move forward in its development of its oil resources,” said Dana Perino, the White House spokeswoman.

From ThinkProgress: "State Department spokesman Tom Casey was more more explicit in his comments, saying that “the United States has had no involvement” in the deals, and thus couldn’t be expected to “block the Iraqi government from contracting in the way it sees fit.”

Back to the NYTimes, "A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say.

"The disclosure, coming on the eve of the contracts’ announcement, is the first confirmation of direct involvement by the Bush administration in deals to open Iraq’s oil to commercial development and is likely to stoke criticism.

"In their role as advisers to the Iraqi Oil Ministry, American government lawyers and private-sector consultants provided template contracts and detailed suggestions on drafting the contracts, advisers and a senior State Department official said.

“ 'We pretend it is not a centerpiece of our motivation, yet we keep confirming that it is,' Frederick D. Barton, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said in a telephone interview. 'And we undermine our own veracity by citing issues like sovereignty, when we have our hands right in the middle of it.' ”

This is a criminal administration with absolutely no credibility.  And impeachment is still off the table.