Something in all this saber rattling against Iran seems fishy to me considering an attack would result in major oil disruptions for us. l think a discussion of other possible motives for the U.S. threats against Iran is in order.
One thing that points to Iran's nuclear ambitions as a red herring is that Halliburton was apparently involved in business deals with Iran until 2003, including helping it with nuclear development technology. At the same time as Cheney's stock options were about to explode by $3,000%, Bush was including Iran in the "Axis Of Evil" speech.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/...
Also many Russian, Chinese and German scientists are involved in helping Iran learn, so if we really wanted to stop it we could simply threaten our trading partners to stop sending the brains.
Threatening the PetroDollar System:
In 2000, Iran switched to accepting Euros for it's oil. If all the oil producing countries did this--which would be more economically beneficial for them--our U.S. dollar would be exposed for what it is--a hollow currency no longer tied to a gold standard and artificially sustained by a collusion of bankers and military might. You'll remember, Iraq switched in November 2000 and the next year we invaded. (I'm not saying that is the only reason for the invasion.)
If you would like more history on our move away from the gold standard you could read this speech by Republican Congressman, Ron Paul. I've got my problems with libertarianism, but he's at least laying it all out here. I suspect the other members of congress, used the opportunity to catch up on their emails.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/...
In 2001, Venezuela had a discussion with Russia about switching to the Euro. That year, everyone's favorite democratically elected boogeyman, Chavez, had to deal with an attempted coup and subsequently backed off from talk of the Euro. (There is quite a bit of evidence that our beloved CIA was involved in the coup and judging from the statements of support from Bush to the coup leaders it's probably true, though rarely discussed.)
The heat was also turned up against Russia. Cries of Putin's dictatorial methods became the common in the media, ignoring his 70% approval rating within his own country. There's a pattern here.
I just wanted to open up this discussion for serious thought. Perhaps if we combine our evidence here, we can eliminated those annoying, unqualified one-sentence comments on so many of these chatrooms, such as "We MUST not let Iran get nuclear weapons!" There's a more substantive analysis of what our government is up to, and I'd love to hear more input from others.