War with Iran

Sometimes things go on in this world that are so blindingly stupid it puts to risk the whole notion of humanity as an intelligent being.

Published on Saturday, February 18, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran
by Heather Wokusch

“…how can the US public be convinced to enter a potentially ugly and protracted war in Iran?
A domestic terrorist attack would do the trick. Just consider how long Congress went back and forth over reauthorizing Bush’s Patriot Act, but how quickly opposing senators capitulated following last week’s nerve-agent scare in a Senate building. The scare turned out to be a false alarm, but the Patriot Act got the support it needed.

Now consider the fact that former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi has said the Pentagon’s plans to attack Iran were drawn up “to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.” Writing in The American Conservative in August 2005, Giraldi added, “As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States.”

Chew on that one a minute. The Pentagon’s plan should be used in response to a terrorist attack on the US, yet is not contingent upon Iran actually having been responsible. How outlandish is this scenario: another 9/11 hits the US, the administration says it has secret information implicating Iran, the US population demands retribution and bombs start dropping on Tehran…”

There are two reasons why Bush is going to attack Iran, if he can. The first is that Iran has the tremerity to begin selling its own oil in Euro’s, not dollars. Oh the living gall. Selling your own products in what ever currency you deem necessary, without consulting the United States of America on your choice. This move, one that good ole Saddam tried to make and brought him smart bombs and depleted uranium for breakfast, would bring into jeopardy the use of American Dollars as the world’s reserve currency. “Room for two” ya say? Sure Euro’s can share the economic stage with dollars, were all friends here aren’t we? Bullshit. The tottering dollar is as weak as my grandmother with a broken hip, palsey, and a heavy drinking problem. If the world moves to trade oil in Euro’s the Dollar will collapse as it is based absolutely nothing. That is because, it is, the dollar has no value other than is use as a reserve currency and the massive buying power of U.S.Citizens. The U.S. dollar is like wet tissue paper holding an apple. It looks cool at first, but it absolutely cannot last. The U.S. economy is based solely on the strength of the dollar for foreign governments. As long as the dollar is financially sound and brings good return on investment (ROI) they will continue to prop up the U.S. economy by using dollars. But, if all of these governments suddenly begin to get pissy with Bush because he has backhanded them once too often, then they will jump to the Euro’s, take whatever momentary financial hit they have to, and then stand back and watch the entire U.S. economy dissolve into memories, regret, and instant, massive, inflation. You think $2.67 is a tad high for our ‘god given’ right to gasoline? Try $15 to $20 per gallon. That’ll make your heart stop and your price of groceries too expensive to purchase.

The second issue is (TA DA!) Oil. The U.S. needs all of it we can get, after all, it is vital that multimillionaires become even more egregiously rich, that Neoconservatives gain even more power over life and death, and that the chubby Americans can still buy Chilean grapes out of season. The U.S. economy is absolutely and completely based on cheap and abundant oil. Any measureable drop in supply, or major increase in price will devastate the American life style in ways that equal the collapse of the Roman Empire. Look around your space right now and count how much is made from petroleum? Computer? Table? Clothing? Plastic anything? Additionally, everything you now enjoy has been brought to you by a petroleum based delivery vehicle. Everything. Right now your grocery store has only about 2-3 days worth of food on its shelves. Interrupt the constant flood of oil into this country and trucks will stop, deliveries will stop, and you will quickly starve. Iran has lots and lots of oil and we need it, all of it. Trouble is, so do China, Russia, India, all of the rest of the world. Therefore, if we have to lob a small nuke or two to control this precious commodity, well then, ‘so be it’.

Well, there is also a third reason why Bush will invade Iran…he’s an insane asshole. But that is for another column.

Brace yourselves folks, the insanity of America isn’t just relegated to foreign lands and foreign people, it will be coming to a locale near you as well. Either you will be conscripted into Bush ‘War on Freedom’, or one of the many countries that hate our guts because we fucked them over is going to blow apart one of our cities, or you will be ground under the boot heel of rampant Fascism that passes for democracy in this lunatic country. Perhaps all three will join hands and enter our world. And ‘War”? Well, it will be a part of our daily news broadcasts up until the lights go out.