“The Bush administration may be highlighting accusations that the Iranian government is behind attacks in Iraq in order to strengthen its hand in preparing for military strikes on Iran, according to a leading British think-tank.”
This analysis suggesting that the US is using Iran as a scapegoat for its failures in Iraq comes as “Iran says it will not succumb to "enemy" efforts to halt its nuclear program, as a US armada deploy(s) in the Persian Gulf – setting the stage for an important week in Iran's standoff with the United States and other world powers.”
What is happening between Iran and the United States is an encore performance of the buildup to the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration. To fully understand the events that culminated into the second gulf war we must look back to the year 2000. The following article,"The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq", which was written before the US invasion of Iraq, lays forth an argument that the war in Iraq was not just about oil but about the currency in which oil is traded. It is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the basic concepts of American foreign policy, economics, and its military operations around the world. This article states that the principle reason why the United States invaded Iraq was because Saddam Hussein in the year 2000 went "ahead with its plans to stop using the U.S. dollar in its oil business" and start using the Euro.
The trading of oil for the Euro instead of US dollars is an extremely important historical precedent set by Iraq that must be understood to fully grasp the implications of Iran's announcement in December of 2006 that they would "use Euro instead of US dollar in (their) next year's budget." If the United states was willing to invade Iraq to prevent oil from being traded in any other currency then the Dollar, then it would be logical to assume that they will also confront Iran regarding their plans to permanently and absolutely phase out the US Dollar. The United states now finds itself between a rock and a hard place, because they will either need to invade, bomb, or enforce sanctions against Iran along with any other country that decides to stop using US dollars, or they will have to watch the complete collapse of their economy and the devaluing of the Federal Reserve currency known as the US Dollar.
Where this will lead is yet to be decided but we now know that the United States is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives, both American and foreign, and is willing to execute the leaders of sovereign countries to prevent them from switching from US Dollars to the Euro.
Unfortunately for the United States, however this quagmire resolves itself with Iran, many other countries have already started to sell the US Dollar and to convert to other currencies. Some of these countries include: Sweden , Cuba , U.A.E. , China , Russia , India , Indonesia , North Korea , Venezuela , and many more.
This escalation between the US and Iran is also reaching its climax at a time when news sources are reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney wants to bomb Iran instead of negotiating for a peaceful resolution. While at the same time Bush has approved CIA plans to destabilize Iran, and the US is on track to nearly doubling the number of combat troops in Iraq by the end of this year.
This unparalleled buildup of military forces by both the United States and Iran is dangerously close to a full confrontation. Unfortunately for the world, the predicated casualties for any military escalation in the Middle East are astronomical.
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War Is a Racket written by America's most decorated general US Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler.