We Are the Change

The Coming Attack on Iran

The real reason Bush and the neocons are planning an attack on Iran has nothing to do with a nuclear program, it is about maintaining the dollar as the monopoly currency for purchasing oil contracts. Iran is planning on opening an international oil trading exchange in which buying and selling will take place in euros and not dollars.
Interestingly, before the invasion of Iraq, Saddam had started selling his oil for euros instead of dollars. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases in the Middle East, and to reconvert Iraq back to selling its oil for dollars while hoping to thwart further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency.
Why is it so important to maintain the dollar monopoly as the world’s oil trading currency? Because it requires all countries that import oil to keep on hand a large surplus of dollars for the purchase of oil. If oil can be purchased with euros, then countries won’t need to hold dollars and the resulting glut of dollars on the world market would cause their value to drop immensely resulting in hyperinflation and a possible collapse of the U.S. economy.
In 2003, Iraq tried to show that it had no weapons of mass destruction, even letting United Nations inspectors search any site of their choosing at any time with no warning. It didn’t matter, Bush ordered the invasion anyway. Why: Because the WMD argument was just a ruse. Just as the current Iran-nuclear issue is a ruse.
Experts tell us that even if Iran is trying to make a bomb, it will take them a decade. Even if Iran had a bomb, they wouldn’t give it away to terrorists; they would use it for their own protection. All nuclear bombs have a “fingerprint”: a sample from any bomb explosion will tell scientists exactly where the bomb originated. And in the improbable event that they gave a bomb to terrorists and the terrorists used it, it would be obvious where the bomb came from, bringing massive nuclear retaliation against Iran.
The Bush administration knows it can’t sell a war against Iran the same way it sold the war against Iraq. They also know that our army is tied down in Iraq and can’t invade Iran. Expect them to employ a different strategy in their effort to destroy Iran. My guess: A horrific false-flag attack somewhere in the world with evidence clearly pointing to Iran as the perpetrator; justifying a large scale (possibly nuclear) retaliation against Iran. For those who don’t know what a false-flag attack is: It is an attack by operatives of country A which leaves evidence at the scene that points to country B.

Who is Really Like Al Qaeda

Because Democrats dare to point out mistakes that this country is making the Republicans have taken to accusing Democrats of being like the Al Qaeda terrorists. The Republican reasoning goes like this: Democrats criticize American foreign policy. Al Qaeda criticizes American foreign policy. So Democrats are supportive of the terrorists. Here is another example of this ridiculously faulty logic: You like art. Hitler liked art. So you are a Nazi.
The fact of the matter is that it is the extreme right in this country and especially the extreme religious right that has so much in common with Al Qaeda. Just look at this comparison. They are both vehemently against abortion. They both resist progressive woman's rights. They both view homosexuality as a crime against nature and God. Separation of Church and State is despised by both. They both insist their nations are founded on the principles of their religion, and they work hard to bring about theocracy. They both deplore strong language, gay characters, and sexual content in the media. And they ignore treaties like the Geneva Conventions when it suits their ideological purposes, including provisions against torture or due process. They're both anti-stem cell research, pro-creationism, anti-evolution and generally distrustful of science. They are almost all pro-death penalty. I could go on and on. In fact, the overlap between the extreme right in this country and Al Qaeda is almost total; the only exceptions being some details of their particular religious doctrine and their views on Middle East foreign policy. So it certainly rings hollow when the extreme right in this country takes to accusing liberals of sharing the views of the extreme right in the Arab world.