I only wish we would have went into Iraq for its oil (better yet, not at all).  It would have made everything so much more easier and less bloody and expensive.  G. W. B. and the neo-cons actually thought they were going to set off a wave of liberal democracy and change the Middle East forever.  Afghanistan has no oil but it does have billions if not trillions of dollars of minerals and rare earths.  Only problem, it is all land locked and surrounded by nations who don't like us and getting it out by rail will never happen by us, maybe the Chinese but not the West.