Iran to crash US Economy, torture won't help

While Bush meets with his chum, despotic dictator Gen Musharraf of Pakistan, the real truth about all this Iran and Nuclear threat it poses is really a smoke screen.

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In the supporting article, Author Mike Whitney writes:

"The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. is planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar."

I was amazed to hear the interview with staunch fiscal conservative and Reaganite on Fresh Air, Bruce Bartlett. I ran out and go his book, Impostor : How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy The title says it all. Finally these guys are wising up. His most insightful observations, fo me, were regarding the absolute danger of their anti-intellectual stance. Complex problems require complex and thoughtful solutions. Bush's cheerleader mentallity is running low, actually it started during the Gore-Bush campaign.

Finally, Fred Branfman wrote and interesting essay for Yuba Net On Torture and Being 'Good Americans

" To ask what it means to be a "good American"is not to compare Bush to Hitler or Republicans to Nazis. The question does not arise only when leaders engage in mass murder on the scale of a Hitler or Stalin, which Bush has not. It requires only that they engage in actions that are clearly evil, which Bush has."

hmmm ....

Nice quote from Harry Truman on that site as well:
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."