The document summarizes that the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq cost $40 billion total, with 75% paid by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from increased oil profits. The war caused oil prices to rise from $15 to $42 per barrel, generating $60 billion in extra profits - half to oil companies and half to Arab governments. Most major oil companies are American-owned, so the US government and private companies profited over $20 billion. The document argues the real motivation for the war was economic gain from higher oil prices and profits, not humanitarian or freedom reasons as publicly claimed.