And those planes....nobody got sacrificed other than the passengers. Yeah, there's this old technology called "FLY BY WIRE". I wouldn't be surprised if those planes were remotely controlled by some mossad airforce maverick top gun dude handy with an atari joystick.
So US goes to war with Iraq.
Civil war breaks out and all sunnis, kurds, and shias kill each other off which we all watch (like we did Rwanda).
Now the land is vacant.....so we hand it off to Israel, cos you know, they need a bigger backyard, and some oil won't be too bad.
Israel builds an oil pipeline from the country "formerly known as Iraq" to the US.
Et voila, dedicated oil supply.