Greed
<Greedy, too. Especially if something can be stolen rather than purchased, like oil.
You know, when we eventually kick Saddam's ass, put his greasy flea-ridden head on a spike, and the Iraqi people cheer our soldiers down every road and highway, and then we finally give the Iraqi people a piece of the oil action in their own country without a tyrant sucking it all up for his own militaristic agenda and leaving them to starve;
I'm going to make you eat those words for about fifty years.
Let's see what happens, shall we? ;)