I looked up an article on whether the war in iraq was worth it and then i got to trying to see if the war in iraq was about oil. A representative to the prime minister of the U.K. said it was. Iraq has the largest oil reserves in the world. The war was aimed to benefit western economies. Blair has said he wants the revenues from the oil to go into a fund to help rebuild iraq. I think that was a great idea. Iraq is losing 55 million dollars a day in oil revenue.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahJS35XsmXGg&refer=top_world_news