For oil, of course. But not to plunder oil, but to maintain the dollar settlement privilege of oil. It is out of date to occupy a country and then plunder its resources. This is what Belgium did in Africa, not what the United States did in the Middle East. Americans can take whatever they want. The United States attacked Iraq, saying it was for oil, but in order to make it clear, it had to involve dollars. In fact, the United States has long tried to maintain the settlement status of the dollar. For example, the United States recognized the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, but cheated the settlement right of the US dollar, so that after the decoupling of the US dollar from gold, its status as a world currency not only did not decrease, but increased. Oil prices are mainly determined by futures. Oil futures prices determine the spot price of oil. The weapon of the United States to control oil prices is WTI. The spot delivery of WTI oil should be in the United States, but this is the standard of world oil pricing. Therefore, controlling the oil settlement right means controlling the oil price, maintaining the hegemony of the US dollar and the hegemony of the United States in the world. Saddam wanted to challenge the settlement status of the US dollar. In 2000, he wanted to use the euro to settle oil transactions and break the shackles of the US dollar. The organization of petroleum exporting countries responded positively. Of course, the United States withdrew, so it found a bad excuse to fight Iraq. The so-called weapons of mass destruction, what a bad reason, will Americans not know? Of course I know. Biological weapons are not white powder. The police framed you for going to your house to search and then move around. It is impossible for the United States to bring a chemical and biological weapons production line to Iraq in broad daylight and insist that it belongs to Saddam Hussein. In addition, attacking Iraq is a fundamental violation of the UN Charter, and a member state cannot attack another member state without being attacked. But the reason is very bad. The United States also wants to fight Saddam because Saddam is too ruthless. But there are also some countries that Americans cannot afford. Such as European countries. But Americans also have ways. For example, 1949 forced the pound to depreciate. For example, in the Suez Canal incident of 1956, the pound was sold, which led to the devaluation of the pound. For example, bombing Yugoslavia caused the euro to depreciate. Back to the war, in 2000, the price difference of American coins was $295.8 billion, but the military expenditure was $294.4 billion, which was roughly the same. This is the relationship between war, dollar and oil. Fighting is for oil, controlling oil is to support the dollar, and supporting the dollar is to safeguard American hegemony. To maintain hegemony, you have to fight again. The United States really fought to support the war.