I am aware that a few years before the invasion, Iraq started selling oil in Euros instead of dollars, and I understand that the preservation of the petrodollar was a reason for the destruction of Libya. Also, there must have been a reason to go to war with Iraq the first time in 1990 and to then wage economic warfare against Iraq.
I’ve heard some stuff about the war being really against Iran, but that doesn’t really make much sense because Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a counterweight against Iran in the region (and in fact the imperialists sponsored an Iraqi invasion of Iran during the 1980s).
Of course, the WMD lie and attempts to link the Iraqi government of the time to al-Qaeda (which seems to just be an imperialist asset anyway) and 9/11 was just a way to find an excuse for the invasion.
The weapons manufacturers, private military corporations, and many other corporations profited greatly from the war, but there must have been a reason that Iraq specifically was targeted.
Iraq had oil resources and was big/influential (competed with saudi arabia as main leader of sunni muslims) and spreading anti-americanism in the region, and Israel kind of demanded intervention too. They hit iraq in 1991, and couldnt finish the job, so some remained with interest on controlling iraq.
It was essentially taking control of a important country by using a good excuse of war agaisnt muslims. They wanted to create a new Arab Gulf state (pro-american, resource rich, neutered against Israel), tbh.
They wanted to do Lybia and Iran at the time too, but it was unpopular after Iraq and they had to wait until Arab Spring, where they hit Syria, North Africa and accidentally spilled it into some of the Arab Gulf, failing against Iran.