Originally Posted By: Footreads
If we did it for oil why isn't iraq oil our oil now. Right after it we could have invade Iran and their oil would have been our oil now.

If I was the president that is what I would have done.
Saddam didn't allow foreign oil companies to operate in Iraq. After the war international companies could get a share from the oil industry. Saddam's regime didn't allow it before and nationalized the oil industry.