Things are Heating Up: USA vs Iran

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I must thank Raw Dawg Buffalo for this piece of info.

Turns out Iran is wanting to switch the Oil price marker to Euros. That can easily switch an already shaking US economy to take a turn for the worse! This guy is playing on the greed of two potentially very greedy entities. This is an amazing chess game. I'd whip out some popcorn if the ramifications weren't so dire for US citizens.

William R. Clark, author of Petroeuro Warfare writes:

"It is now obvious the invasion of Iraq had less to do with any threat from Saddam’s long-gone WMD program and certainly less to do to do with fighting International terrorism than it has to do with gaining control over Iraq’s hydrocarbon reserves and in doing so maintaining the U.S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market. ..."

(this from an old online article. Here)

Now my question is: If that was the whole purpose of the war, why be covert about it? If the intent was to save the American Empire and its money, why weren't they more open about this problem and offer the OPECians extra bonus, or special treatment to entice them to stay with the American dollar? Also, didn't they think US citizens would understand what this situation would bring and thus back the US for whatever efforts they used to keep America's standard of living where it's at?

Help me out here.

(for an easy read, check out this site.)