Confed999

They can't even keep secret projects secret. They can't suppress pictures of prisoners in dog collars. The government so does not control the media, at least not here.

It was too dumb to answer. The West supported the Baath party to weaken the commies and Iran. To the best of my knowledge there have been no ties found to Saddam's seizure of power.

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No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

Confed999

Enzo Ferrari

China? Are you refer to the same country called PR of China where they invaded their neighbours like India and Vietnam and making atorics making the Americans doing in today looks like nothing???

Randy Mott

The numbers do not add up to support this naive hypothesis IMO. Iraq's share of dollar holdings pre-war was less than 0.03% of world dollar holdings.* No threat to the dollar if he had controverted in peanut commodities or anything else. The widely discrdited Robert Fiske made this allegation as a question, asking if this was the source of regime change policy in the US. However, like most things, he asked the question with no information to support it. In fact, regime change became the official policy of the US in 1988 (four years before Saddam talked about switching to Euros). OPEC has never been a major or principal holder of dollar reserves, with ot without Iraq and Iran. The Saudis shifted billions in 2002-2003 and it had no effect. The dollar is still the major reserve currency and its role is not being seriously challenged. Total worldwide foreign reserves holdings reached $3 trillion at the end of 2004, up from $2.4 trillion in 2003, with the largest holders being Japan, at $834 billion, and China, at $615 billion. Most foreign exchange reserves are held in the form of dollar-denominated securities; one reason for this is that foreign governments like the highly liquid market for U.S. Treasury securities. As of December 2003, dollar-denominated securities accounted for roughly 70% of total reserves... At the end of 2004, foreign governments held $1.2 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities, almost double the $609 billion held in 2000. " What If Foreign Governments Diversified Their Reserves? (2005-17, 7/29/2005)

Congress listed the reasons for going into Iraq and ironically most of them playerd out as called. We have given the Irqis a chance for a democratically elected government and it is up to them to have the political maturity to compromise as necessary to make it work. This was a side beenfit to the war and looks like it may be turning the corner with decisios of oil revenue and local elections.

Randy Mott

Pragnosis

Can I ask if this forum is (in it's majority) made up of military personnel and polititians? I've been doing a lot of thinking and watching a lot of documentaries recently and it does seem that there is definitely an agenda for world conflict.

In previous posts' I have mentioned secret societies such as 'Illuminati', 'Skull & Bones' and 'Freemason' and this made me sound as though I am an ill-informed conspiracy theorist. However, all I want to do is to seek the truth. Maybe one does not really need to know in-depth knowledge of the entire economic and geo-political structure to see the 'big picture' as it were.

I do believe in my heart of hearts that there is an agenda about which we (the majority of the world population) have no clue. Just think of the following:

- This invasion of Iraq and the potential conflict with Iran will give the US a great deal of control over middle eastern oil reserves (this cannot be denied). Even Bill O'Reilly admitted that the conflict is over oil (on the David Letterman man show) and Bill couldn't be anymore right wing.

- American military hardware is a huge export of which generates billions of dollars to enhance the US economy. Wars must be created in order for the US to export their machines and for the evolution of the American military industrial complex.

- Heavy propaganda against Radical Islam, basically demonising the whole of the muslim world in terms of public perception. (I'm a caucasian religious pluralist).

- Heavy propaganda (in UK & US), justifying a future attack on Iran, of whom completely deny the allegations from the US of WMD.

- A New World Order is REAL, maybe not as drastic as some of the famous conspiracy theorists' portray it to be, however, New World Order = Globalisation and centralisation of power through the United Nations. Another world war could indeed make this happen.