I never wrote that Jim. In fact, I agreed in quite a few messages that it was probably one of the deciding factors, but only one of them, not the sole reason. You must have missed all those...


>>Late last year, Iran announced that it had stopped carrying out its oil transactions in US dollars.
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>>"At the moment, selling oil in US dollars has been completely halted, in line with the policy of selling crude in non-dollar currencies, " Nozari was quoted as saying in December
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>>http://news.theage.com.au/iran-says-oil-price-too-low-at-115-us-dollars-a-barrel/20080419-278q.html
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>And you feel there's positively no connection with this and the ever-increasing rhetoric by President Bush and other Administration officials about possible war with Iran????
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>SNIP