It is a war that America cant afford to lose. We will never leave the mid-east due to the oil and fossil fuels we are obtaining, therefore making this war primarily for a profit and the survival of gasoline run cars. Until we have a main primary "green friendly" solution we will continue to suck down oil. So has war become nothing but a prognosticating tactic till an answer is solved? Making this war morally incorrect. But at the same time we are fighting the same bastards that attack us on 9/11. I am pretty cut down the middle.
Don't worry about the oil. They can only do one of two things with it, anyway. Use it, which the can't do in the forseeable future; or sell it, which is what we want, anyway.
More people die from...
Tobacco
Alchohal
Drugs
Violent crimes
And a list of other things in one year than there have been soldiers killed the entire 7 years we've been at war.
I'm in the military, all they told us when we were in Iraq was we were there to "stabalize" the region so it could be handed over to the Iraqi government.
I've seen quite a few oil pipelines be blown up and burning for weeks.