You know Iraq got the world second biggest reserves of oil after Saudi Arabia. That's explain all. Iraq is also the only arab country with enough technology developmets to match Israel, and a technologically advanced Arab country is like smoke in the eyes for the US, since it could pose a threat for the American influence in the area. Just a notice:perhaps Iraq is a menace just because it's not truly an Arab country:the presence of Caldean Christians is strong (Tariq-Aziz is Christian),woman can wear anything they want (including volleyball divises). But a menace is a menace (for the US influence in the area), Arab or not.
You know Iraq got the world second biggest reserves of oil after Saudi Arabia. That doesn't address my point that the US doesn't even need their oil, and that we get almost no oil from the middle east at all. The majority of US oil comes from its own backyard: Canada, US, and Mexico, with significant quantities coming from various other places around the world, a small percentage of which comes from the Middle East. The Europeans are far more dependent on it than the US is.
In other words, we don't really care about the Middle East oil, and all the pretending in the world won't make that any different. It makes for a good conspiracy theory, but it isn't grounded in reality.