Firstly the US was not a petroleum exporter at the time of the Iraq wars. Secondly, one take on the Iraq war was that it happened not to obtain fossil fuel res

Firstly the US was not a petroleum exporter at the time of the Iraq wars. Secondly, one take on the Iraq war was that it happened not to obtain fossil fuel resources, but rather to obtain control over them, and prevent them being exploited in a way which threatened the interests of US and/or Saudi oil.