Your comment, "You ARE kidding, right? We had SH in a box - he had nothing, he was going nowhere". We had him in a box? ABSURD. You cant put a country in a box for the purposes of interdicting the flow of weapons to and from it. Hell, we are IN the country and still cant do it effectively.
Your comment, "However, Iraq DID have the world's 3rd largest potential supply of oil". In reference to oil, we are just bathing in it now since we invaded...right?
No industrialized country can go without oil.