Oh, they had a plan alright. Get rid of Hussein under false pretenses (there were NO WMD), take control of the oil fields, make Cheney's Haliburton billions in revenue, install U.S. oil companies, and whamo! control Iraq oil. Iraqi society is far worse, by the way than under Sadaam; we blew the country to pieces for oil and left its citizens on the streets with poverty; and still no WMD.  Worse than Viet Nam and the Gulf of Tonkin, the Bay of Pigs, - and Afghanistan - combined.