The Project for a New American Century.
PNAC for short.
It's a neoconservative think tank that believes that Iraq is the most valuable piece of land on the planet because not only does it have its own rich oil resources, it connects the trade routes from Africa to Asia and Europe, and from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. (It looks like they took that part off their website at some point after the U.S. invaded Iraq.) They also believe that America needs to increase their military budget and spread American influence throughout the world.
Here is a link: http://www.newamericancentury.org/
It's from 1997 but they published their big plan for this century in the year 2000. Its members include Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Jeb Bush. A few years later these guys got in the White House, and started planning an invasion of Iraq before 9/11 happened. Then 9/11 happened, and then we invaded Iraq.
That seems more logical than the WMD theory or the Iraqi ties to Al-Qaeda theory. Since ya know, those were all lies, or the result of some of the most horribly immoral negligence I've ever heard of.
