It's bound to happen soon. Kudos to Georgie-poo for paying attention.

This is what Ron Paul was warning about. You guys will find he will be right on a lot of things. NOW you will stew in your juices with these CFR criminals you voted for. Wake up folks.

dadw5boys....yea but we haven't tried to wipe out their dogs; the japanese slaughtered most of those little pekes, in china. Seriously, ever wonder what united states took out of korea? Go visit and unless its all be paved over we dug surface mines and big craters everywhere we thought there was gold -even tho their gold is of lesser grade than america's. Or, how about chromium, rubber and (other stuff)...in Cambodia, Laos, Nam? But, you are correct, and maybe you're right too.

As soon as Darth can arrange his excuse (False Flag?), the USA will be able to make good

on the promises Darth has made to the Likudists and Saudi Royals to destroy Iran's energy

capabilities (nuclear, nat. gas & oil). This would in principle, destroy Iran's political power in

the Middle East but we know how corrupt and incompetent BushCo is. This could backfire!

General Smedley Butler said that he was tired of being a "messenger boy for Wall Street." I was taught that this country waged war for "noble purposes." First, the Indians, of course.That was Manifest Destiny. If they had IEDs those wagons would have made a U"-turn." Then a series of other wars have ensued. Most were based on money and keeping strategic footholds. These turned out to be slippery footholds. Iran is in the cross-hairs now. The main reason wars are waged is for money - we call that "commercial interests" in our National Security documents.

The dollar is now going to be worthless without oil being traded in dollars. The US went off the gold standard in 1971. We then forced OPEC into trading in dollars. Now that plan is failing, too. To control access to oil and protect our dollar, which is based on oil, is the "highest" national priority. Gunboat diplomacy for opening markets is still alive and well. Our military might is now the only thing between us and bankruptcy. Our service economy consumes much and produces little. We are seeing, food riots, tortilla riots, rice shortages, wheat crop failure, and other shortages, especially water. The mortgage-backed debt scam has been exposed. A decisive blow to the dollar has already taken place. The asset bubble is deflating and we have no way of crawling back. We cannot sustain the "bubble structure."

We are weak in many ways now, and this makes me wonder if the CIA has become so involved in poltical intrigue that it is no longer a viable source of international intel. Iran obviously knows that dropping the dollar as the oil market currency would stir up trouble with the US, and even more so if Iran is the origin of the proposal.

Such gives the distinct feel of being baited...do we really know what is going on here?

If this move isn't what it appears to be, I think it's a given that the BushCo-handicapped CIA isn't savvy or effective enough to see the forest for the trees....

My last post seemed to have disappeared.
The point i was making is that our entire seemingly disparate Mid East foreign policy has been based on the idea of blocking the creation of an Arab super state. Be that actual, or loosely confederated states sharing a common currency. I would have to give the credit to the republicans who have been heading our policies for the past 8+ years for creating the prefect conditions for this idea to gestate. An arrogant set of decisions leading to overwhelming resentment combined with a failing dollar has really upped the chances of this taking shape.

"Staunch US allies, Saudi Arabia", good one AP(ASSociated Press). 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from......Bosnia? Americans better hope the Islamic revolution doesn't come to that country(maybe that's why we keep selling them all those weapons). Why should oil be pegged to the US dollar? This is 2008, not 1972, but the Iranian desire will just put more gasoline to the fire for all the hawks of this government to start a war with them. The dollar has lost stability and value since Bush took office, but I think that would have happened anyway. The reasons for that would take a whole book worth of writting. I have said this many times in the past, the only way we will get our country back is after a complete economic collapse(I doubt it will happen), but you never know, the future is bleak either way. The vast majority of Americans are ignorant, but good people, too bad our government is out of control.

The Cheney doctrine is simple. Kill anybody who suggests separating oil from the dollar. If the house of Saud were to betray him he would kill them too. The collapse of the American economy will end these insane imperial adventures. Let it burn.

The only thing that will bring America back to the Constitution is economic collapse - Thank you Amadinnerjacket.

It might be a good way to stop the beast that has been oppressing us. The beast that has been reigning death and destruction down on third world countries with mineral resources. Our overloards have to be brought down one way or another. They will bring us down with them. We will have to pick ourselves back up by our bootstraps. And afterward never let them back in control of us again.

The predication of our entire Mid East policy has been to prevent the development of a super state in this region. From our blind love for Israel to our constant vilification of Iran, the colonization of Iraq ...
and so on. While the issue of a confederation of states and currencies is not new. the weekness of the dollar combined with the overwhelming distaste for our foreign relations is helping to create a favorable climate for just such a plan. What to do? What to do?

BINGO. this would be a great finale to the bush failed foreign policies. however, it could get worse. sadam wanted to get off the dollar and look what happened.

If the Republicans' policies of throwing our money away on the military, and cutting taxes on those most able to afford taxes, are allowed to continue, then the time will come when the dollar will be comparable to the Italian Lira. $1,000 per barrel oil? Could happen, and a loaf of bread could end up costing what a barrel of oil costs in 2008.

If it even looks like opec is considering this, there will be war with Iran.

Talk about war with Iraq began around the time Saddam started trading oil only in Euros. If history is any indication I imagine the rhetoric against Iran is gonna be ratcheted up tenfold now. Like Mark Twain once said, history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.