As for the resources, we don't just go in there and grab them. That's not how it works. Instead, the resources have been opened up to discovery, development, and recovery by big Western multinational corporations, which is who we fought the wars on behalf of in the first place. Not to mention all the billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild the infrastructure we destroyed.
Plus there was evidence that Sadaam had that the Holocaust didn't happen. We had to go in there and secure it before the world knew the truth. Allied Bombing raids essentially killed 6 million Jews by causing starvation. Before the allies started bombing the Jews were essentially living in resort level accommodations. Hitler interned them for their own protection.
Also Sadaam's father was on the grassy knoll on orders by J. Edgar Hoover and when Sadaam had Hoover killed 9 years later the conspirators (The Bushes) thought that was the end of it. Sadaam's father gave him some damning evidence on his death bed that would flip the military industrial complex from it's perch atop the power structure in the new world order. LBJ was from Texas and Bush knew that the country would never accept a president from Texas unless one was
installed first. Bush SR also needed JFK killed to hide his love affair with Hoover as JFK wasn't playing ball with Hoover's regular black mail attempts by threatening Hoover with his own blackmail attempt.
Zapruder was actually an agent of the Shaw of Iran contracted by Fidel Castro to kill John Connally. Connally never spoke of this because the Illuminati had dirt on an affair he had with Jack Ruby. Ruby never got over his obsession for the "barrel chested" Governor (there was a love note to Connally from Ruby sratched into the wall of the cell Ruby was held where Ruby refers to him as "barrel chested", which has been covered up despite at least 3 freedom of information act requests) , he had a deep seeded hatred for his wife. Ruby hired Oswald to kill his wife, Idanell. The whole thing went array when zapruder's camera (which was really an advanced cancer ray provided by the Russians) reflected the light into Oswald's scope making him miss the intended target of Mrs. Connally and shooting the president instead.
Ruby was livid with his hired gun and was let in to the parking garage by none other than the FBI to kill Oswald. Little did Ruby know that Oswald would have died of Cancer within 3 years from exposure of the Zapruder ray. Ruby was actually in Dealey Plaza fairly close to Zapruder and received a lethal dosage of the cancer radiation meant for Mrs. Connally.
The interesting part is that Ruby was allowed a conjugal visit with the resistance's hand chosen seed bearer. Her name was "Ms. Jones". She consummated with Ruby in a ritualistic ceremony and she secured his seed. She then placed the seed in a North Korean cryostasis container until the time was right.
In the early summer of 1973 Ms. Jones was instructed to place the seed. In nine months she had a baby boy. She called him Alex.