The dollar is the world reserve currency. Saddam Hussein started selling his oil in euros in November 2000. There’s your casus belli. You can stop the madness about Downing Memos and false intelligence. The US economy was under attack and we took measures to remove the threat. Case closed. You want to explain to 250 million US citizens the complexity of petrodollar recycling? The Anglo-US alliance was protecting its financial interests. And that’s the bottom line.
The dollar is the world reserve currency. Saddam Hussein started selling his oil in euros in November 2000. There’s your casus belli. You can stop the madness about Downing Memos and false intelligence. The US economy was under attack and we took measures to remove the threat. Case closed. You want to explain to 250 million US citizens the complexity of petrodollar recycling? The Anglo-US alliance was protecting its financial interests. And that’s the bottom line.