Hmm...yes, but there is lot of oil there. Not only Iraq has it. you have to decide what is you are fightign for, WMD or terrorist threat. If answer is WMD then this war is somewhat dubious as Iraq was under sanctions for years and spin-doctors have been working overtime to try to convince John Doe that Saddam is going to make atomic bomb anywhere soon (with mixed results, as evidence points towards that he wasn't going to do anything like that). If answer is "terrorism" then Iraq is wrong pick again as terrorist are funded by oil-money from "friendly" oil nations...
Get my point? No point in this war except pleasing home public, doing something on TV "to kick terrorist ass and kill that evel tyrant". Now twitchy North Korea sitting on the nukes or internationally wide-spread terrorist network funded with oil money, that's some serious stuff...
All this energy could be chanelled towards picking "high-hanging fruit" and wars are costly thing in terms of money, peoples lives and tolerance...
It seems like lot's of people swallowed this "he's going to make A-bomb if we don't stop him" -
PR stunt alltoghether and having people in powerfull nation like US believe in cachy stories like this is what worries me. Hello, critical thinking, where are you? all i hear is "if you ain't with us you're against" and "we are great & kick ass" ...
Yeah, even if you are great...before you kick somebody's ass you have to be sure why or all this talk of "moral obligations" goes trough the window and you're nothing else but local bully.