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The US defence secretary yesterday tapped into deepening international concern about a clandestine nuclear programme in Iran, warning that Tehran was actively working to develop a bomb.

Donald Rumsfeld's remarks, delivered during a visit to Germany, appeared aimed at exerting pressure on Tehran and the UN's nuclear monitoring agency, which meets next week in Vienna to decide how to respond to Iran's failure to honour nuclear safeguards.

His intervention also appeared to advance the next project of Pentagon hawks: regime change in Tehran.

Told'ya.

Iran is next. After Iran is "taken care of," Saudi Arabia will shut up, at least about the euro. Then maybe a nice anti-royalty, anti-western revolution, and we are in Saudi Arabia, too.

OPEC will need to be renamed to "OPEAC" (Organization of Petroleum Exporting American-ruled Countries).

Again: Not that the Iranian nuclear threat isn't real. It is. But it is in fact the perfect excuse that allows the US to justify its intervention. Without terrorism or rogue nations' WMD cravings, we'd be up a creek.

Question remains: How long can we keep this up?

There is an easier solution.

Research "Euro vs Dollar".

EW

Question remains: How long can we keep this up?

I see that you signed up today. And I also see that all your posts so far have the same theme. What's up? Is this your passive-aggressive way of showing disgust at America?

eurowar

"Without terrorism or rogue nations' WMD cravings, we'd be up a creek."

Wrong. Without terrorism and wmd concerns we would be at
peace. While I do not agree with your hypothesis it is
interesting in an Art Bell tin foil hat fashion. So here
is one of mine. The real beneficiary of the current
troubles between the US and the terrorists is Europe.
We shoulder the blood cost and the financial burdens
while french philosophers continue a five hundred year
old debate about the benefits of regular bathing. The
finacial cost of terrorism to the US will be about
400 billion$ this year alone. If europe can continue this
process long enough its economy will strengthen against
the US economy. I could easily jump to the conclusion
that the entire terrorism operation is european spon-
sored since they stand to gain the most from a takedown
of the US economy. I can only hope that the monster that
they have created and supported consumes them first.
Just a wild flight of fancy on my part, but it could
work.