Saddam went rouge and Nationalized the oil, kicked out ExxonMobil, BP, Total and Shell. Pissed off the cabal. They needed an in... harboring terrorists and WMD. We had the receipts for the weapons because we helped facilitate the chemical weapons attack on Iran.  Why Venezuela? Same story. Chavez kicked out the western oil giants looting the resources while his people starved to death.  Libya? Gaddafi was amassing gold for oil, trying to get the rest of OPEC to do the same and fuck the petrodollar.  Are you seeing a pattern?