Comments on: Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/02/24/annexing-khuzestan-battle-plans-for-iran/ si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DaveyM http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/02/24/annexing-khuzestan-battle-plans-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-4678 DaveyM Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:38:08 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=12602#comment-4678 "the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It’s utterly worthless." THE US DEBT TO GDP RATIO (WHICH IS THE RELEVANT FIGURE) IS 34 ON THE LIST OF WORLD COUNTRIES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_debt). GERMANY, JAPAN, FRANCE, AND ITALY ARE HIGHER. SO FOLKS ARE GOING TO DROP DOLLARS FOR WHICH CURRENCY? "If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the world’s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral." ANY COUNTRY CAN TRADE THEIR DOLLARS FOR EUROS INSTANTANEOUSLY ANYTIME (IMMEDIATELY AFTER OIL IS PURCHASED, FOR EXAMPLE); COUNTRIES HOLD DOLLARS BECAUSE THE DOLLAR IS MORE LIKELY TO HOLD VALUE IN THE LONG TERM THAN EUROS --NO MATTER WHO ACCEPTS WHAT CURRENCY FOR OIL PURCHASES. "If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran’s nuclear weapons programs) and put Iran’s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved." SWEEP INTO THE REGION WITH WHAT TROOPS? THEY ARE ALREADY STRETCHED THIN IN IRAQ. BUSH WOULD FACE A CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ AND AND AN ALL OUT BATTLE IN IRAN. NOT LIKELY. Your creative thought is admirable; believing it is more than pure fantasy is foolish. “the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It’s utterly worthless.”

THE US DEBT TO GDP RATIO (WHICH IS THE RELEVANT FIGURE) IS 34 ON THE LIST OF WORLD COUNTRIES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_debt). GERMANY, JAPAN, FRANCE, AND ITALY ARE HIGHER. SO FOLKS ARE GOING TO DROP DOLLARS FOR WHICH CURRENCY?

“If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the world’s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral.”

ANY COUNTRY CAN TRADE THEIR DOLLARS FOR EUROS INSTANTANEOUSLY ANYTIME (IMMEDIATELY AFTER OIL IS PURCHASED, FOR EXAMPLE); COUNTRIES HOLD DOLLARS BECAUSE THE DOLLAR IS MORE LIKELY TO HOLD VALUE IN THE LONG TERM THAN EUROS –NO MATTER WHO ACCEPTS WHAT CURRENCY FOR OIL PURCHASES.

“If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran’s nuclear weapons programs) and put Iran’s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.”

SWEEP INTO THE REGION WITH WHAT TROOPS? THEY ARE ALREADY STRETCHED THIN IN IRAQ. BUSH WOULD FACE A CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ AND AND AN ALL OUT BATTLE IN IRAN. NOT LIKELY.

Your creative thought is admirable; believing it is more than pure fantasy is foolish.

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