Which choice provides the best evidence to support the answer to the previous question?

A. Extend his influence over the world's largest source of oil, the Persian Gulf.

B.“Any war we launch in Iraq will certainly be -- in part -- about oil. To deny that is
laughable."
C."if he were to acquire weapons of mass destruction, it might give him the
leverage he has long sought -- not to attack us...

D."whether it is seen to be only about oil will depend on how we behave before an
invasion and what we try to build once we're there"