Petrodollars

[trout]

Been reading up on petrodollars and their involvement in the Iraq war.

 

Having been concerned for some time now over Americas world dealings, the crescent being when they refuted the Kyoto agreement! Now things are becoming very very clear.

 

We have a country whos energy needs are expanding because of its unchecked energy consumption and who's deficit is fast approaching its GDP.

 

The worlds economies are pushed towards buying oil in dollars by OPEC, and this commerce is now fast becoming Americas only real source of money to prop up its military and world dominance. Americas economy IS based on oil!

 

So Iraq, the second largest oil producer, turning towards Euros to sell its oil was set to imblance Americas economy.

 

How else could Bush rectify this, but to charge into the country on false pretences backed by the UK, who's own economy was propped up by the US in the 50's in the Suez crisis!!?

 

Why doesn't the Bush administration address a proper energy strategy rather as spiralling out of control and ignoring the Baker report almost altogether?

 

Make moves with the other G8 nations to replace the unsustainable Dollar as the central world reserve currency through taxing currency exchange?

 

Rejoin with UN policy making and the UN as central pillar to the world?

 

All of the above?

[Njugle]

Land of the brave, Home of the free.....once upon a time.

 

Now Land of the ignorant, home of neo-conservatism.

 

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

 

Not to detract too much from the petrodollars debate, which is lengthy in itself, but when more than half the senate uphold creationist beliefs as opposed to darwinism, you are looking at a country in intellectual reverse gear, following the "God is on our side, we are prosperous, whatever we do is God's will and so must by default be right" ideology. God gave america oil, god gave america the ability to take other peoples oil, so mr bush can sleep well in his bed at night knowing that what he does will 'always' be right. But the other big hidden agenda here is that high oil prices make for higher oil revenues, which are good for governments and oil companies. Record profits in fact. And so we sit home watching adverts telling us how much the oil giants are investing in 'green' technology, but guess who's paying for it?

 

Plus the whole control by unified fear psychology of the war... 'it's all good' for those at the top.

 

The good christian yanks demonize 'muslim fundamentalists', but the real terror is the christian fundamentalists, cos they've got the money AND the weapons and the confident ignorance.