But I thought it was about closing the rape rooms

Apparently not, from the Toronto Star:

No matter how inspired the rhetoric, the U.S. project in Iraq has never been about democracy. It's been about getting control of Iraq's vast, virtually untouched oil reserves, and extending Washington's military reach over the region. "Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath; you can't ask for better than that," Wall Street oil analyst Fadel Gheit told me in an interview.

Sorry for making you read that, but that quote made me feel so icky that I had to put it in the blog.