NO, no. I didn't mean that we invaded Iraq for oil as our first priority. There were numerous other reasons of more immediate importance. But there are a number of countries that needed to be dealt with, sooner or later, and we probably put Iraq at the head of the list for that reason, among others. After all, Syria has caused at least as much trouble as Saddam did, but Syria can wait.
We have not taken the oil, which we could have done. But if chaos breaks out in Saudi Arabia through no fault of our own, which it could do at any time, at least we will have secured an alternative supply.
We haven't taken advantage of the Iraqi oil as fully as we might have done because we don't really need it now and we don't want to give propaganda ammunition to our fifth columnists in the media and the DNC. But we may need it in the future, and if we do at least Saddam isn't sitting on it, ready to blow the wells.
The #2 reason for the Iraq War was to take $20B per year in Iraqi oil revenues out of the hands of our enemies and secure a strategic reserve of oil for the possibility of Saudi oil getting temporarily plugged up.
The #3 reason for the Iraq War was the Flypaper Strategy or "Draining the Swamp" of bad guys by luring them to their deaths.
The #4 reason for the Iraq War was to spread democracy like the seeds of a dandelion.
and the #5 reason for the Iraq War was to surround Iran for the final showdown there.