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Sure the US attack for Oil, but I don't think it the Euro itself. My guess is that man may have a major influence in the oil market. Well either way, I don't think US invaded and executed because of Euro. That is too simple thinking. It got to be much more than that.
It's a confluence of interests. There is no emperor. Oil (but oil per se but the ability to control oil which is much more important), the petro-dollar (which is tied up in oil control but has its own set of vested interests), and territorial control (which is also tied up in oil control as it is the oil producing regions that the US and everybody else wants a presence in).
Riding along with that are the various industrial interests like KBR and Exxon etc who want to pick at the corpses or tap into the cash stream and there are the financial interests that always do well funding weapons and wars at interest.
However, selling in Euros was a big part of the reason (and the reason that Saddam and others have sold in currencies other than the dollar is precisely to hurt the US dollar and reduce the ability of the US to fund its massive military, but without appearing as aggressors).