For those who wish to know, or who have inaccurate info, the US has not yet received a single barrel of oil from Iraq. Why? They are still trying to meet their own needs, and the contracts that countries originally had with Iraq. The main problem is that Iraqi militants keep blowing up their own oil pipelines and water mains. This makes absolutely no sense.
As far as Strategy goes in the long term, Saudi Arabia is running out of oil. Their own officials have placed their reserves at lasting a maximum of 40 more years even at minimal rates of production. So, the US does have some responsibility in the oil agenda, but not the one you think. The US is attempting to set up a government in Iraq that will sell us oil for years to come as cheaply as Saudi Arabia did. However, the US has yet to see any return on its investment. Other than that objective, the War was supposed to be humanitarian, although it was unforseen that Iraq would be infiltrated by tens of thousands of muslim extremists from nearby nations bent on trying to cast doubt in the minds of the NATO founding nations.
--Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Wagner
--VF143 Pukin' Dogs (Sqdrn 9)