1. YES. The war in Iraq was about monopolizing the sale of their oil to the US, at a rate we can live with. Sorta in between stealing it, and paying market price. We TELL them the price their puppet regime will sell it for, and they do it.
1b. War profiteering. You can't sell the military 10,000 new Humvees if the first 10,000 haven't been blown up yet.
2. YES. Cheney got a 36 mil payout from Haliburton in 1999. He has given them monster deals on Iraq and Afghan bids, even after they were caught committing fraud on earlier deal in these wars. Also he was caught receiving payment from Haliburton stock (was it 2004?), outed in a pretty embarassing congressional episode. Major problem there. But, coincidentally, he announced later that week his intention 'all along" of course, to donate the $ to charity.