US invaded & occupied Iraq in 2003 to prevent China from taking over Iraqi oil fields & establishing a client state, keeping its oil out of Beijing's reach. The invasion came shortly after the Feb. 2003 outbreak of "bird flu"(SARS) in China, which might have been a US bio-weapon.
After 9/11, SAIC pushed the false WMD case to profit off the Iraq War & secured the Total Information Awareness contract via John Poindexter, partnering w/ QinetiQ—backed by Carlyle Group, whose investors included Prince Bandar (9/11 hijackers' financier) & the Bin Laden family.