I can't possibly reply to this entire thread, and so far I have to admit I have seen little evidence that the USA invaded for oil, otherwise the amount of oil imported by the USA from Iraq should have increased. Though the Halliburton thing seems like a bit of a conflict of interest it seems, that doesn't seem the reason the USA invaded in the first place.
I must say I'm more than slightly drunk while posting this, but it seems to me that Bush needed to be seen to be doing something after a direct attack on American soil (9/11) and the Iraq war was a part of that. The war on terror was something that was demanded by the American people who needed to see a response to the attack. The fact that it was misguided seems to me to be at least partly down to the fact that it was hurried by the anger of the American people.
