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In less than 24 hours the Bush

administration has won impressive premium rt. liberal
victories on both domestic and foreign blogad info
policy fronts. At home, the far-right
Federalist Society alum, Sam Alito, has
overcome the feeble resistance from
Democratic senators; ensuring his
confirmation to the Supreme Court
sometime late on Tuesday. Equally
astonishing, the administration has
coerced both Russia and China into
bringing Iran before the United Nations
Security Council although (as Mohamed
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ElBaradei says) There's no evidence of a
nuclear weapons program. The �
surprising capitulation of Russia and China has forced Iran to abandon its efforts for
further negotiations; cutting off dialogue that might diffuse the volatile situation. The Bats and the Bees

�We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of
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The administration's success with Iran ends the diplomatic charade and paves the way
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for war. Now, UN Ambassador John Bolton can make his appearance before the Security
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The administration has no expectation of securing the votes needed for sanctions or Best Candidate For AL-05?
punitive action. Its all for show. The trip to the Security Council is simply a ploy to Maybe Not.
provide the cover of international legitimacy to another act of unprovoked aggression.
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We should now be focused on how Washington intends to carry out its war plans, since
war is inevitable.

Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so
conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administration's
Middle East strategy.

Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-
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sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains
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90% of Iran's oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with
in the Last 2 Days
American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance (by Recommend Emails)
of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration
must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and Now I'm Really Getting
precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles Pissed Off by David
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written about the proposed euro-based bourse and the devastating effects it will Michael Green
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have on the greenback. The best of these are Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the
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Future of the Dollar by William R. Clark, and The Proposed Oil Bourse by Krassimir � Walk Away From the

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The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that
now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That An Avatar Awakening
means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It's utterly by David Swanson
worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in
greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by Department of
trading in petro-euros then the world's central banks will dump the greenback overnight, Veterans Affairs
sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral. Reports 73 Thousand
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The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the by Clive Boustred
tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the
system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As Detroit Airliner Terror
long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude Incident: A
will continue. Convenience Theory
by Grant Lawrence
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The Bush administration's attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran Michael Vick by Brasch
that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front
in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush For Obama, No
administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran's nuclear Opportunity Too Big
programs) and put Iran's prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of To Blow by Naomi
monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved. Klein

Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Hussein's strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities Glen Beck Is Officially
against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at Crowned King Of Fools
the time, so it is likely that he got the green light for the invasion from the Reagan White So Now We...Cry! by
House. Many of Reagan's high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; Daniel Vojir
notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.
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Khuzestan represents 90% of Iran's oil production. The control over these massive fields Lost Decade by Bob
will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile Burnett
greenbacks despite the currency's dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent
Iran's bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant Save Congo: Send
position as the world's reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and Hillary Clinton AVATAR
western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of by Georgianne
exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently Nienaber
prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. In fact, the American
war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid
for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency. Go To Top 50 Most
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This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it
has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical
mumbo-jumbo. It is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the
oil trade in dollars.

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In a recent article by Zolton Grossman, Khuzestan; the First Front in the War on Iran?
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Fre e do m March
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, Grossman cites the Beirut Daily Star which predicts that the "first step taken by an
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sensitive Straits of Hormuz and cutting off the Iranian military's oil supply, forcing it to by C hris He dge s
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This strategy has been called the Khuzestan Gambit , and we can expect that some
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variant of this plan will be executed following the aerial bombardment of Iranian military
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weapons. In fact, the Pentagon may want to demonstrate its eagerness to use nuclear
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On January 28, 2006, Iranian officials announced that they would hand over evidence
i.e . spe ak ing truth whe re it
that proved British involvement in bombings in the southern city of Ahvaz earlier in the
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week that killed eight civilians and wounded 46 others. This was just one of the many
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bombings, incitements, and demonstrations that have taken place in Khuzestan in the last
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Step by step, Iran is being set up for war. What difference does the provocation make?
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