[Dr. Franklin]

We went into Iraq to get Saddam out of power. “Mission Accomplished”.
It created a power vacuum being filled by Iran.

Iraq sat on the 2nd largest supply of oil in the world, and it was produced very cheaply. To increase the world price of oil, Iraq's oil had to be taken off the market. That required war and sanctions to keep that cheap oil off the market, and it made the oil in Russia, the UAE and Qatar more profitable. So, Saddam Hussein became this villain for them to corner the market on oil. Cheap oil has its enemies, and U.S. domestic production of oil causes cheap oil too.

[EEGator]

There’s certainly a disconnect between stated reasons and actual reasons for everything we do abroad.
Now nothing is cheap in the US, and we’re being invaded by trash.
All deliberate.