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OK, let me rephrase: We're much more likely to invade a country with a significant amount of oil than a country with very little oil.
We've never invaded a country that didn't have large agricultural areas, either. Did we just do it for the 'taters?
Now, I will admit that the fact that the ME has the lion's share of the world's oil reserves, that oil was a factor. It's a factor in the sense that we can't allow most of the world's oil fall into the hands of a bunch of crazies. Without oil, food doesn't get grown, nor does it make it from the field to the kitchen table. In this day and age oil and food are both equative in importance to the stability of the globe.