Re: Threat to the U.S.: Irans "nukes" or the Euro?



"Steve Walker" <spam-trap@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:4449giFa3uuU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Alan wrote:
>> http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service
>> _id=7493
>>
>> Iran's nuclear projects, alleged WMD's, or its supposed support
>> of "terrorist organisations" as the Bush administration claims
>> does not pose a threat to Washington. What does pose as a threat
>> is Iran's attempt to re-shape the global economical system by
>> converting it from a petro-dollar to a petro-euro system.
>>
>> Such a conversion is looked upon as a flagrant declaration of
>> economical war against the U.S. which would flatten the revenues
>> of the American corporations and could eventually cause an
>> economic collapse.
>
> So what're we waiting for? Let the Euro-Bourse roll....

Even if the crackpot economic hypothesis was true, why would you want the
U.S. economy to collapse?


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