It was about controling the flow of oil from Iraq, that they succeded in doing. Iraq was also supposed to have been forced to give around a third of its money from oil over 10 years or so to a UN Compensation Commission.
I like how we`re supposed to trust the intelligence services of governments that cant even find Sadam to kill him but can find out what he`s hid somehow.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Darkness squeezes, Satan`s platypus rises tonight! Bork, bork, bork!