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Originally posted by talisman
reply to post by '___'eed
I like your theory about keeping it simple. Just to add something here, the United States had planned the invasion of Afghanistan pre-911, in July 2001 they were already informing Pakistan
news.bbc.co.uk...
Originally posted by Taxi-Driver
Originally posted by talisman
reply to post by '___'eed
I like your theory about keeping it simple. Just to add something here, the United States had planned the invasion of Afghanistan pre-911, in July 2001 they were already informing Pakistan
news.bbc.co.uk...
And why not? What is so sacred about Afghanistan? The Taliban had more UN sanctions against them than ants at a picnic. We had already fired tons of cruise missles into Afghanistan pre-911, I don't recall much public backlash from that. What makes you think we needed to destroy downtown Manhattan to invade Afghanistan?
The Taliban were not well thought of worldwide. Russia certainly wouldn't stop an invasion. So what is the motive (besides percieved sadism) to ransck our largest city again? Afghanistan!? Really?
Originally posted by Taxi-Driver
More like Saddam had his chance to do right all throughout the 90's , but refused... Not only that but was defiant about it.
I just don't understand what is so surprizing about all of this.
The Taliban and Saddam Hussain were covered in UN sanctions, and destablizing the region. We had troops in Saudi Arabia (at the request of King Faud) because of Saddam's repeated aggressive behavior toward Iran, and Kuwait.
And you are shocked and outraged..in 2008? Welcome to 1998 dude.
Why did it Occur?
Until November 2000, no OPEC country dared violate the dollar price rule. They had little reason to do so as long as the dollar was the strongest currency. But on that date, French and other Euroland members finally convinced Saddam Hussein to defy the United States by selling Iraq's oil-for-food not in dollars, “the enemy currency” as Iraq named it, but only in euros. The euros were on deposit in a special UN account of the leading French bank, BNP Paribas. Radio Liberty of the US State Department ran a short wire on the news but the story was quickly hushed up.[2] This little-noted Iraq move to defy the dollar in favour of the EUR, was in itself insignificant. Yet, if it were to spread, especially at a point the dollar was already weakening, it would have created a panic sale of dollars by foreign central banks and OPEC oil producers.
Originally posted by zerbot565
saudies threathend to move money away from the us because of a declining dollar which would have lead to a total collapse,
attack on us raised petrol and gold value