Iraq war on oil

Many people believe that the only real reason that America is stepping in and trying to control the middle east is for their large oil deposits. Although they say that we have enough oil to last us until 2050, the government seems ever so focused on sending troops to the middle east. Although many terrorists do live there, their is the theory that we are working with the terrorists to gain control of the government, which would ultimately lead to the U.S. controlling those oil deposits. With the middle east having more than half of the worlds oil reserves, if the U.S. controlled that, then they would account for over 2/3 of the worlds oil deposits. Some people believe that the government uses war as a distraction for the oil they want and uses the people as bait. In George Orwell's book "1984" he discusses the difference when the government uses war as an electoral tactic to manipulate the citizens and have basically total control over the every day lives of the people. As war rages on throughout the world no one can really know what the governments are planning until it's already too late.