It wasn't a war for oil then and it's still not a war for oil today. That fact proves that people that claim they were right about the Iraq war all a long were either toeing the party line or guessing. Most people guessed wrong and thought it was about Iraqi oil. It was about keeping the dollar as default currency for oil with out it our currency is worthless. Much much bigger than oil. Russia China and India right now are fighting to break that link.