[Carry_Okie]

So the insurgency in Iraq from Iran and Syria caused the US mortgage crisis ?

Learn how to read.

Is he doing that for the US dollar ? US gold reserves ? Oil ?

When George Bush declared his intent to invade Iraq, it was within days of Saddam declaring his intent to trade his oil in Euros. You decide what the loss of reserve currency status would mean to the United States in the race to retain the power to print money without consequence.

[justa-hairyape]

So you were comparing how one US problem caused by overseas trouble, could mean that other overseas trouble may also cause a US problem ?

it was within days of Saddam declaring his intent to trade his oil in Euros.

He was also trying to organize an Oil Embargo. About all he could really do as a defiant gesture, seeing that we had a no fly zone enforced over large sections of his country. He did attack the Kurd's though while under the no fly zone. But that was a domestic issue for the farce of a nation called Iraq.