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Old 05-28-2008, 02:05 PM
 
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Aside from desires to avenge Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of George Bush Sr., the George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq with the deliberate goal of overspending the U.S. Treasury, driving down the value of the dollar, causing speculation on the oil market and thus bringing oil prices sky high to benefit close associates.

I am not normally into conspiracy theories, but this one sounds quite plausible.

Thoughts anyone?
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:10 PM
 
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Frankly I don't think W's smart enough or wily enough to come up with such a conspiracy.
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:19 PM
 
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No, but Cheney and Wolfowitz certainly would have been...
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:29 PM
 
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"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order." - Henry Kissinger

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - Bill Clinton

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken

"The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order." - Willy Brandt
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:30 PM
 
Location: DC Area, for now
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Oil barons fronted a puppet before - McKinley - and he started the Spanish-Am war and wreaked havoc with the economy. It took Teddy Roosevelt and a 3rd party to put a stop to it.
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:38 PM
 
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Oil barons fronted a puppet before - McKinley - and he started the Spanish-Am war and wreaked havoc with the economy. It took Teddy Roosevelt and a 3rd party to put a stop to it.
Which is why I'll likely be voting for Bob Barr come November.
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Old 05-28-2008, 02:40 PM
 
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"The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship." - Former Congressman John Rarick, 1971

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
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Old 05-28-2008, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Huntington, NY
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"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order." - Henry Kissinger

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - Bill Clinton

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken

"The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order." - Willy Brandt
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Thank you Frenchman for all you do
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Old 05-28-2008, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Aside from desires to avenge Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of George Bush Sr., the George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq with the deliberate goal of overspending the U.S. Treasury, driving down the value of the dollar, causing speculation on the oil market and thus bringing oil prices sky high to benefit close associates.

I am not normally into conspiracy theories, but this one sounds quite plausible.

Thoughts anyone?
Inflation benefits debtors, and the US is the world's biggest debtor.

Savers of US dollars are just "collateral damage" in making the dollar worthless to wipe out our debts.
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Old 05-28-2008, 03:28 PM
 
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Which is why I'll likely be voting for Bob Barr come November.
ditto

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