The US has made sure that all the oil fields in Iraq are secure, which seems like the only thing that they had any urgency in securing. The Age reports that to make sure the coming war didn't lead to the destruction of priceless pieces of art and records that are thousands of years old, US archaeologists, museum directors, and scholars were granted a meeting with the Pentagon to voice their concerns. To show how much the US respects keeping records of human history intact, the article states "...even with US forces firmly in control of Baghdad last week, looters breached the museum, trashed its galleries, burnt its records, invaded its vaults and smashed or carried off thousands of artefacts dating from the founding of ancient Sumer around 3500 BC to the end of Islam's Abbasid Caliphate in 1258AD."

So, who thinks this war isn't about oil?