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Iraq sits on the 2nd largest oil reserves on the planet. Approx 115 Billion Barrels of proven reserves and by some estimates there are anoth 130 Billion Barrels undiscovered.
At the current price of oil that's about $6 to $12 TRILLION dollars. That's T as in Trillion.
Saddam was becoming a fuckup. He told banks to GFY on over $120 Billion in loans.
He was probably the most sadistic dictator of this century. Millions of men, women and children were horrifically tortured and executed.
He was about to do some funky currency switches moving Iraq's foreign reserves into the Euro to fuckup the dollar.
He did want nukes though I doubt he actually had them.
Iraq is at the center of the middle east and was geographically perfect for the right wingers in the US administration who believe it was time to begin the process of attempting to inject democracy into the muslim world.
The US economy needed a war.
The world's oil company's and OPEC countries needed this war to take oil to incredible new highs to build up immense cash hoards as the world begins to lessen its dependency on oil and moves towards electric hybrid type engines and maglev technologies.
And lots more reasons, but those are the main ones.
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