DUers: We must "Go massive ... Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

[TruthIsAll]

Don't let up for one damn minute..


http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:8__fKQs-LQ4C:


Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2002

"Go massive ... Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hours after 9/11 attack


(CBS) CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.

That's according to notes taken by aides who were with Rumsfeld in the National Military Command Center on Sept. 11 – notes that show exactly where the road toward war with Iraq began, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

more....

[TrueStory]

1. To see the relations - look at things from bigger distance

Plans for Iraq attack begin after the first Gulf war and especially after the Europeans decided to forme a single currency...

Once upon a time I was searching on BBC site for articles containing the words "Iraq", "attack", "options".

BBC search for (Iraq, attack, options)

I've observed that there are many articles dating back in 1998. I've decided to make an ASCII graph counting the number of articles per month containing these words. Here is the result:

        Imaginary Euro -->|<-------  InterBanking Euro  -------->|<-- Euro Cash
                          |                                      |
 Attack                   |                                      |
 Iraq     ^               |                                      |       XX
 article/ |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
 month    |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
          |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
          |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
          |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
          |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   |  X|
          |  |            |            |            |            |       XX   | XX|
          |  |            |            |            |            |  X    XX   | XX|
          |  |XX         X|            |            |            |  X    XX   | XX|
          |  |XX         X|            |            |            | XX   XXX X | XX|
          |  |XX         X|            |            |            | XXX  XXX XX|XXX|
          |X |XX         X|            |            |            | XXX  XXXXXX|XXX|
          |X |XX         X|X           |            |        X   | XXX  XXXXXX|XXX|
          |XX|XX        XX|X           |            |       XXX X|XXXXXXXXXXXX|XXX|
          |ND|JFMAMJJASOND|JFMAMJJASOND|JFMAMJJASOND|JFMAMJJASOND|JFMAMJJASOND|JFM|
         1997|    1998    |    1999    |    2000    |    2001    |    2002    |2003 

Here is a link for Clinton-Lewinsky affair timeline:

Timeline: The Clinton investigation


...and here is a link, where you can check the Exchange Rate of Euro/USD in the same time period (1997-2003)

http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/plot.html


Homework: Try to find out if these things are related or not :)
Please observe 9/11 took place just 3 months before introduction of Euro bank notes. It wasn't a LIHOP. It was a MIHOP (Make It Happen On Purpose)

//TrueStMry

[newyawker99]

2. Hi TrueStory!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LiberalLibra]

3. TrueStory: Welcome to DU and thank you for the article, a special....

....thanks for that "Exchange Rate of Euro/USD" because now I might be able to prove/disprove my point that the Euro is overtaking the dollar, and that is part of what fueled Iraq.

edited for typo

[TrueStory]

4. Here you can find more

Hi LiberalLibra,

Here is a very well documented study with a lot of links:

BUSH'S DEEP REASONS FOR WAR ON IRAQ: OIL, PETRODOLLARS, AND THE OPEC EURO QUESTION


The Unstated US Goal of Preserving Dollar Hegemony Over the Global Oil Market

Dominance of Middle Eastern oil will mean in effect maintaining dollar hegemony over the world oil economy. Given its present strategies, the US is constrained to demand no less. As I explain in this extract from my book, Drugs, Oil, and War (pp. 41-42, 53-54), the present value of the US dollar, unjustified on purely economic grounds, is maintained by political arrangements, one of the chief of which is to ensure that all OPEC oil purchases will continue to be denominated in US dollars. (This commitment of OPEC to dollar oil sales was secured in the 1970s by a secret agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia, before the two countries began to drift apart over Israel and other issues.) <8>

The chief reason why dollars are more than pieces of green paper is that countries all over the world need them for purchases, principally of oil. This requires them in addition to maintain dollar reserves to protect their own currency; and these reserves, when invested, help maintain the current high levels of the US securities markets.

As Henry Liu has written vividly in the online Asian Times (4/11/02),

"World trade is now a game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world produces things that dollars can buy. The world's interlinked economies no longer trade to capture a comparative advantage; they compete in exports to capture needed dollars to service dollar-denominated foreign debts and to accumulate dollar reserves to sustain the exchange value of their domestic currencies. To prevent speculative and manipulative attacks on their currencies, the world's central banks must acquire and hold dollar reserves in corresponding amounts to their currencies in circulation. The higher the market pressure to devalue a particular currency, the more dollar reserves its central bank must hold. This creates a built-in support for a strong dollar that in turn forces the world's central banks to acquire and hold more dollar reserves, making it stronger. This phenomenon is known as dollar hegemony, which is created by the geopolitically constructed peculiarity that critical commodities, most notably oil, are denominated in dollars. Everyone accepts dollars because dollars can buy oil. The recycling of petro-dollars is the price the US has extracted from oil-producing countries for US tolerance of the oil-exporting cartel since 1973.

"By definition, dollar reserves must be invested in US assets, creating a capital-accounts surplus for the US economy. Even after a year of sharp correction, US stock valuation is still at a 25-year high and trading at a 56 percent premium compared with emerging markets."