>>I just heard that the real reason for going after president Hussein was his plan to abandon $ and switch to €... I know he wasn't that important and this wouldn't be more than a blip on the radar, but there's always the other cards and the whole house of them falling afterwards...
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>I heard it before from Tracy herself, and there was also that study that WalterM pointed to. But that was more like a just theories
>whereas constant sliding of dollar became hard reality. If those theories were correct then it seem that what they tried to prevent by deposing Saddam, is exactly what they caused by staying in Iraq indefenetely and spending trillion or so on it. They turned that carriage downhill themselves basically.
>When there is constant slide of dollar then you cannot blame anybody for doing what is their best economic interest.

But you can, specially if you own a lot of media. If you own enough of them, you may not even look so foolish.

>What I am afraid are usual 'inventions' of how to curb that downhill path. We all know how big capital handled big recessions in the past...

Our proverb about cutting ears to patch the butt comes to mind.

>Will it be some 'catalysing event' all over again, or 'axis of evil' riding on a new bicycle, or chasing 'Big bear' with 'invisible bees' we are yet to discover out. <g>

Ten years ago, Sloba ran out of wars... and the peace was exactly what scared him stoolless, that's when he was losing ground. So... he invented the last one he had at hand. How do you say deja vu in Gruzian/Russian/Greek...?