From heritage.org, "Russia has $7 billion worth of oil leases and loans tied up in Iraq and recently unveiled a 10-year trade deal worth $60 billion. Moscow is owed at least $10 billion in unpaid debts by the Iraqi regime. Its cooperation depends on it being allowed to pursue these claims with a post-war government. France also has extensive trade interests in Iraq."

Other countries are already in line with leases for Iraqi oil. I don't think oil is the Bush reason. I think it is a mixture of his religious zeal and hair-trigger anger that his power is being frustrated, that he was the leader when we were attacked on September 11, so now he is lashing back at anything (Iraq) that he thinks makes us vulnerable. In the process, he is making us even more vulnerable to terrorism and continuing the recruitment of more terrorists. The more the US looks like we are on a "crusade", a term unfortunately used by Bush at first, the more we feed the cycle of violence. I am in support of human rights in all parts of the world. I do think Iraq's Saddam is dangerous. I think countries who are supportive of human rights should work toward relief of the Iraqi people, but the boomerang effect on us will be terrible if we make a military strike before all other courses of action are exhausted. Bush's motivations are not rational, they are emotional. He wants to be the cowboy who rescues the little girl on the tracks. Ethical dilemmas are difficult. He's not thinking of the ramifications of being the "good guy" riding in to take out the "bad guy", the future hatred and terrorism it would create and the carnage left in his wake.