[tdeck]

It was about giving US companies control over the profits from the oil industry and crushing an unaligned country in the region to turn it into a US puppet state, not just to carry barrels of crude oil home.

[mlinhares]

Also line up the pockets of the military contractors that got paid to "rebuild" Iraq.

[convolvatron]

dont forget that Iraq _was_ a US puppet state for the bulk of the Iran-Iraq war. It's entirely plausible that Hussein just got too uppity, and needed to be taken out.