First: I´m not one of those people who think that Iraq was only invaded because of the oil as I know that there isn´t even that much oil in Iraq (actually it´s 2.7% of the world production).
I don´t want to blame or piss off anyone. I don´t want to say that the lives lost since the invasion of Iraq were pointles as the people of Iraq now have the oppurtunity to build a better future.
The only thing I want to say is that it is wrong to think just because you live in wealth you can tell other people what to do. It´s the same as a dictatorship.
About money:The reason most european countries and the USA have the money is because they took it from those countries that were technological not as advanced in the past. Most of the thrid world countries were former colonies of european countries. People were enslaved to work so the rich countries could gather even more money.
BTW: You know how Britain got Hong Kong as a colony?
Here´s the answer.About Iraq:The war in Iraq (Iraqi Freedom) began because there could´ve been weapons of mass destruction wich till now were never found (I think you now those nice pictures of mobile laboratories Powell showed). It was started without the permission of the UN wich is the reason that only US and British soldiers were fighting instead of the NATO as in Desert Storm (the reason Iraq wasn´t completely invaded during Desert Storm is that the UN send the troops there to defend Kuwait and not to get rid of Saddam so the US troops would´ve fought alone if they wanted to get rid of Saddam during Desert Storm).
Short after the main war in Iraq was over the US government threatened the Iran and a lot of people thought this would be the next war zone because it was quite similar to the threat against Iraq before the war began.