The case this film makes is about money, not democracy: the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it argues, was less about weapons or terrorism than about oil and the dollar's grip on the global economy. Narrator Simon Reeves walks through the petrodollar system, the arrangement by which oil has been priced and traded in US dollars since the 1970s, and argues that Saddam Hussein's 2000 decision to sell Iraqi oil in euros threatened that arrangement directly. The film then turns to Iran, pointing to plans for an Iranian Oil Bourse, an exchange set to open in March 2006 trading oil in euros rather than dollars, and frames it as the next flashpoint after Iraq. Official justifications, weapons of mass destruction, the war on terror, are treated as cover stories laid over a struggle for US economic supremacy. There is no on-camera interview roster or archival investigation here, just narration building a chain of financial motive from Baghdad to Tehran, aimed at viewers already skeptical of the war's stated reasons.