Yeah, those Iraqi insurgent submarines will sink our ships, their fleets of long range bombers will lay waste to our cities. They will invade us and subjugate us under the conqueror's jack boot heel.Worse than that, they'll sell their oil in Euros. The joke will be on US! From an essay written in 2003 by William Clark at
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html -
Although apparently suppressed in the U.S. media, one of the answers to the Iraq enigma is simple yet shocking. The upcoming war in Iraq war is mostly about how the CIA, the Federal Reserve and the Bush/Cheney administration view hydrocarbons at the geo-strategic level, and the unspoken but overarching macroeconomic threats to the U.S. dollar from the euro. The Real Reasons for this upcoming war is this administration's goal of preventing further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an oil transaction currency standard, and to secure control of Iraq's oil before the onset of Peak Oil (predicted to occur around 2010). However, in order to pre-empt OPEC, they need to gain geo-strategic control of Iraq along with its 2nd largest proven oil reserves. This essay will discuss the macroeconomics of the `petrodollar' and the unpublicized but real threat to U.S. economic hegemony from the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency.
This and other creepy PetroEuro scenarios were discussed in Nov '03 in this article
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/nov03/middleEast.asp(
Strategic Insights is an e-zine published by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.)
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