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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-442028</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IRI, Are you at satirist or a left winger trying to make right wingers look bad? If it is the second, then you are doing a splendid job. 

Comment by appalled ally 

I&#039;m just a guy having a little fun spreading the gospel of Gentle Jesus and warning the Walking Dead of their decease. 

If there&#039;s something particular you&#039;d like to take issue with please tell me about it but of course there&#039;s no guarantee I&#039;ll spend much time with you. I&#039;m particularly fond of our foreign guests though so we&#039;ll see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IRI, Are you at satirist or a left winger trying to make right wingers look bad? If it is the second, then you are doing a splendid job. </p>
<p>Comment by appalled ally </p>
<p>I&#8217;m just a guy having a little fun spreading the gospel of Gentle Jesus and warning the Walking Dead of their decease. </p>
<p>If there&#8217;s something particular you&#8217;d like to take issue with please tell me about it but of course there&#8217;s no guarantee I&#8217;ll spend much time with you. I&#8217;m particularly fond of our foreign guests though so we&#8217;ll see.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=442028', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: appalled ally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IRI, Are you at satirist or a left winger trying to make right wingers look bad? If it is the second, then you are doing a splendid job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IRI, Are you at satirist or a left winger trying to make right wingers look bad? If it is the second, then you are doing a splendid job.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441833', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-441318</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHHAAHAAA I live in Dallas IRI 

Comment by mr ho

When I lived in Dallas we busted a terrorist cell of Islamofucks who were collecting money under a fake charity to buy guns to kill Americans. I guess they missed you. I&#039;ll let my friends know you&#039;re still around. I lived in Dallas for 20 years, I have a lot of friends there in the DA&#039;s office and police. Punks like you are a dime a dozen. In Dallas as elsewhere money talks and bullshit goes to jail. Have a nice day and be glad that you&#039;re nobody.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAHHAAHAAA I live in Dallas IRI </p>
<p>Comment by mr ho</p>
<p>When I lived in Dallas we busted a terrorist cell of Islamofucks who were collecting money under a fake charity to buy guns to kill Americans. I guess they missed you. I&#8217;ll let my friends know you&#8217;re still around. I lived in Dallas for 20 years, I have a lot of friends there in the DA&#8217;s office and police. Punks like you are a dime a dozen. In Dallas as elsewhere money talks and bullshit goes to jail. Have a nice day and be glad that you&#8217;re nobody.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441318', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-441051</link>
		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ANd Guess what ELSE IRI, there are no Bush Stickers on Cars here anymore...We REAL Texans KNOW that Bush is full of it and so are you,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ANd Guess what ELSE IRI, there are no Bush Stickers on Cars here anymore&#8230;We REAL Texans KNOW that Bush is full of it and so are you,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441051', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AND you damn well be ready to shut that mouth of yours, and back up what you say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AND you damn well be ready to shut that mouth of yours, and back up what you say.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441049', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>George cant even ride a sedgeway much less Talk correctly.

Beside that IRI, he wasnt even born in Texas. Marvin Busch Was.

Bush is a Ivey League Whore thru and thru.
Now he can put on a Cowboy and clear some Brush from a OLD Pig Farm, and fool some of you WHOM think your texan,but thats all fluff. The Man cant even tell the Difference between a Steer and a Heffer.

Now Im here In texas Suppose you come into Dallas, and do som of this ass Whooping you keep speaking of.
AI am 6&#039;0 and 240 Lbs and raised in the Bad Sections of Town.

Bring it on Windbag. Take Off that &quot;HAT&quot; that you falsely wear.
And I will show you a good old Texas Ass Whoopin. Street Style.

You better start working out Scared little man</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>George cant even ride a sedgeway much less Talk correctly.</p>
<p>Beside that IRI, he wasnt even born in Texas. Marvin Busch Was.</p>
<p>Bush is a Ivey League Whore thru and thru.<br />
Now he can put on a Cowboy and clear some Brush from a OLD Pig Farm, and fool some of you WHOM think your texan,but thats all fluff. The Man cant even tell the Difference between a Steer and a Heffer.</p>
<p>Now Im here In texas Suppose you come into Dallas, and do som of this ass Whooping you keep speaking of.<br />
AI am 6&#8242;0 and 240 Lbs and raised in the Bad Sections of Town.</p>
<p>Bring it on Windbag. Take Off that &#8220;HAT&#8221; that you falsely wear.<br />
And I will show you a good old Texas Ass Whoopin. Street Style.</p>
<p>You better start working out Scared little man<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441048', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHHAAHAAA I live in Dallas IRI</description>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-441032</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now IRI talks about SPEAKING the Kings ENGLISH?

Now thats FUNNY IRI.
Bush speaking Clearly?
In Kings English?

Well DAMN IRI, ol Bush is mangling the Kings English..Whaddya say to that? 

Comment by mr ho 

&lt;b&gt;I did say the &quot;Kings English&quot; didn&#039;t I Mr. ho? That comment was directed to some jack leg half-assed Paki-Brit who thinks he&#039;s an Englishman. Bush talks American with Texas accent. If I were you I wouldn&#039;t make fun of us because we&#039;ll stick our size 13 cowboy boot up your ass. I call it my &quot;Clue Boot&quot;. I don&#039;t know what George calls it but he&#039;ll whip your ass too. That&#039;s why we win. That&#039;s why we&#039;re better than you. &lt;/b&gt;</description>
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<p>Now thats FUNNY IRI.<br />
Bush speaking Clearly?<br />
In Kings English?</p>
<p>Well DAMN IRI, ol Bush is mangling the Kings English..Whaddya say to that? </p>
<p>Comment by mr ho </p>
<p><b>I did say the &#8220;Kings English&#8221; didn&#8217;t I Mr. ho? That comment was directed to some jack leg half-assed Paki-Brit who thinks he&#8217;s an Englishman. Bush talks American with Texas accent. If I were you I wouldn&#8217;t make fun of us because we&#8217;ll stick our size 13 cowboy boot up your ass. I call it my &#8220;Clue Boot&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what George calls it but he&#8217;ll whip your ass too. That&#8217;s why we win. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re better than you. </b><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=441032', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440946</link>
		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now IRI talks about SPEAKING the Kings ENGLISH?

Now thats FUNNY IRI.
Bush speaking Clearly?
In Kings English?
HAHHAAA.
Hang on a Sec, lets see what the Brits thought of Duhbya

2003 the Independent UK

Indeed, today&#039;s Washington has a whiff of Soviet ways; suffocating internal discipline, resentment of even reasoned, moderate opposition, and a refusal to admit even the tiniest error. &lt;strong&gt;For imperialists, read &quot;evildoers&quot;. With their condescending &quot;we know best&quot; attitude, Messrs Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest offer as close an impersonation of the Politburo as you will find.&lt;/strong&gt; As was said of the pre-glasnost Kremlin then, so with the White House now: you know nothing, but understand everything.

Finally, there is Bush the buffoon. There is another reason for his aversion to press conferences: in anything but the most tightly scripted circumstances he is capable of saying anything. Sometimes it works fine, as at his father&#039;s state banquet for the Queen in 1991, when he boasted to her that he had embroidered his new cowboy boots with the phrase &quot;God Save the Queen&quot;, before confessing he had been his family&#039;s black sheep. &quot;Who&#039;s yours?&quot; he then asked the sovereign, to the horror of his mother.

But he&#039;s President now. And if there&#039;s anything that jars with liberals more than his gilded, semi-accidental glide to the White House, &lt;strong&gt;it&#039;s his capacity to mangle the English language.&lt;/strong&gt; In the US and Britain alike, the chattering classes don&#039;t know whether to laugh at Bush or loathe him. The antipathy is assuredly mutual. Is he dumb, Barbara Bush was once asked of her son. Yes, came the acid reply, &quot;dumb as a fox&quot;.

Well DAMN IRI, ol Bush is mangling the Kings English..Whaddya say to that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now IRI talks about SPEAKING the Kings ENGLISH?</p>
<p>Now thats FUNNY IRI.<br />
Bush speaking Clearly?<br />
In Kings English?<br />
HAHHAAA.<br />
Hang on a Sec, lets see what the Brits thought of Duhbya</p>
<p>2003 the Independent UK</p>
<p>Indeed, today&#8217;s Washington has a whiff of Soviet ways; suffocating internal discipline, resentment of even reasoned, moderate opposition, and a refusal to admit even the tiniest error. <strong>For imperialists, read &#8220;evildoers&#8221;. With their condescending &#8220;we know best&#8221; attitude, Messrs Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest offer as close an impersonation of the Politburo as you will find.</strong> As was said of the pre-glasnost Kremlin then, so with the White House now: you know nothing, but understand everything.</p>
<p>Finally, there is Bush the buffoon. There is another reason for his aversion to press conferences: in anything but the most tightly scripted circumstances he is capable of saying anything. Sometimes it works fine, as at his father&#8217;s state banquet for the Queen in 1991, when he boasted to her that he had embroidered his new cowboy boots with the phrase &#8220;God Save the Queen&#8221;, before confessing he had been his family&#8217;s black sheep. &#8220;Who&#8217;s yours?&#8221; he then asked the sovereign, to the horror of his mother.</p>
<p>But he&#8217;s President now. And if there&#8217;s anything that jars with liberals more than his gilded, semi-accidental glide to the White House, <strong>it&#8217;s his capacity to mangle the English language.</strong> In the US and Britain alike, the chattering classes don&#8217;t know whether to laugh at Bush or loathe him. The antipathy is assuredly mutual. Is he dumb, Barbara Bush was once asked of her son. Yes, came the acid reply, &#8220;dumb as a fox&#8221;.</p>
<p>Well DAMN IRI, ol Bush is mangling the Kings English..Whaddya say to that?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440946', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;terrorist appeasing&#039;

 Must be the New CODE word from Limbaugh and the FAUX media.

It Aint workin IRI</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;terrorist appeasing&#8217;</p>
<p> Must be the New CODE word from Limbaugh and the FAUX media.</p>
<p>It Aint workin IRI<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440929', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
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		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Unfortunately for us it says in the presidential oath that he will to the BEST IF HIS ABILITY, and we all know how inept those abilities are. But it does nto say anything about protecting the Ameircan people and there is a reason for that. The constitution and the idea of America are far more important than any one citizen. 

Comment by Mark #23

&lt;strong&gt;Mark,

Actually bushiva had a &quot;signing statement&quot; attached to that oath...&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution:</p>
<p>I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for us it says in the presidential oath that he will to the BEST IF HIS ABILITY, and we all know how inept those abilities are. But it does nto say anything about protecting the Ameircan people and there is a reason for that. The constitution and the idea of America are far more important than any one citizen. </p>
<p>Comment by Mark #23</p>
<p><strong>Mark,</p>
<p>Actually bushiva had a &#8220;signing statement&#8221; attached to that oath&#8230;</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440917', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
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		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually Smedly, you terrorist appeasing and supporting asshole, they are paid for by American tax dollars generated by the strongest economy in the world. By the way if youâ€™re going to cut and paste from that ratbastardcommietumblefuck Mike Whitney the least you can do is give the dipshit credit. It wouldnâ€™t do to have the losers around here thinking some Paki-Brit moon god worshiper can speak the Kingâ€™s English. Loser. 

Comment by I-RIGHT-I #84

&lt;strong&gt;Looks like somebody struck a nerve...

...thinkin about dumping your dollars 

Incephalitic-Recycled-Insect?&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually Smedly, you terrorist appeasing and supporting asshole, they are paid for by American tax dollars generated by the strongest economy in the world. By the way if youâ€™re going to cut and paste from that ratbastardcommietumblefuck Mike Whitney the least you can do is give the dipshit credit. It wouldnâ€™t do to have the losers around here thinking some Paki-Brit moon god worshiper can speak the Kingâ€™s English. Loser. </p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I #84</p>
<p><strong>Looks like somebody struck a nerve&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;thinkin about dumping your dollars </p>
<p>Incephalitic-Recycled-Insect?</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440911', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
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		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency. 

Comment by Smedley

Actually Smedly, you terrorist appeasing and supporting asshole, they are paid for by American tax dollars generated by the strongest economy in the world. By the way if you&#039;re going to cut and paste from that ratbastardcommietumblefuck Mike Whitney the least you can do is give the dipshit credit. It wouldn&#039;t do to have the losers around here thinking some Paki-Brit moon god worshiper can speak the King&#039;s English. Loser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency. </p>
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<p>Actually Smedly, you terrorist appeasing and supporting asshole, they are paid for by American tax dollars generated by the strongest economy in the world. By the way if you&#8217;re going to cut and paste from that ratbastardcommietumblefuck Mike Whitney the least you can do is give the dipshit credit. It wouldn&#8217;t do to have the losers around here thinking some Paki-Brit moon god worshiper can speak the King&#8217;s English. Loser.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440833', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Smedley</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440748</link>
		<dc:creator>Smedley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administrationâ€™s Middle East strategy. 

&lt;strong&gt;Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iranâ€™s oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed â€œeuro-basedâ€ bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are â€œPetrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollarâ€ by William R. Clark, and â€œThe Proposed Oil Bourseâ€ by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D. 

The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. Itâ€™s utterly worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the worldâ€™s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral.

The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude will continue.&lt;/strong&gt;

Battle Plans 

The Bush administrationâ€™s attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iranâ€™s nuclear programs) and put Iranâ€™s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.

Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Husseinâ€™s strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green light for the invasion from the Reagan White House. Many of Reaganâ€™s high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Khuzestan represents 90% of Iranâ€™s oil production. The control over these massive fields will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile greenbacks despite the currencyâ€™s dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent Iranâ€™s bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant position as the worldâ€™s reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency. 

This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the oil trade in dollars.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administrationâ€™s Middle East strategy. </p>
<p><strong>Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iranâ€™s oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed â€œeuro-basedâ€ bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are â€œPetrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollarâ€ by William R. Clark, and â€œThe Proposed Oil Bourseâ€ by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D. </p>
<p>The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. Itâ€™s utterly worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the worldâ€™s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral.</p>
<p>The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude will continue.</strong></p>
<p>Battle Plans </p>
<p>The Bush administrationâ€™s attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iranâ€™s nuclear programs) and put Iranâ€™s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Husseinâ€™s strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green light for the invasion from the Reagan White House. Many of Reaganâ€™s high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.</p>
<p>Khuzestan represents 90% of Iranâ€™s oil production. The control over these massive fields will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile greenbacks despite the currencyâ€™s dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent Iranâ€™s bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant position as the worldâ€™s reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency. </p>
<p>This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the oil trade in dollars.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440748', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440683</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If my memory is correct, didnâ€™t George W. Bush recently refer to the Constitution as â€œjust a (curse word) piece of paper?â€ It doesnâ€™t sound as he has much respect for the Constitution, does it? And his actions give further proof to that. 

Comment by Lora 

Nope, that was John Kerry who said that with Jimmy Carter concurring. It must be true I read it on a website.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If my memory is correct, didnâ€™t George W. Bush recently refer to the Constitution as â€œjust a (curse word) piece of paper?â€ It doesnâ€™t sound as he has much respect for the Constitution, does it? And his actions give further proof to that. </p>
<p>Comment by Lora </p>
<p>Nope, that was John Kerry who said that with Jimmy Carter concurring. It must be true I read it on a website.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440683', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lora</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440556</link>
		<dc:creator>Lora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you suggesting that the President of the United States has forsaken his oath and is therefore a liar and treasonous cur? 

Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” 

If my memory is correct, didn&#039;t George W. Bush recently refer to the Constitution as &quot;just a (curse word) piece of paper?&quot;  It doesn&#039;t sound as he has much respect for the Constitution, does it?  And his actions give further proof to that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you suggesting that the President of the United States has forsaken his oath and is therefore a liar and treasonous cur? </p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” </p>
<p>If my memory is correct, didn&#8217;t George W. Bush recently refer to the Constitution as &#8220;just a (curse word) piece of paper?&#8221;  It doesn&#8217;t sound as he has much respect for the Constitution, does it?  And his actions give further proof to that.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440556', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440549</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get these moronic right wing fearbased bigots out of office as fast as possible while we still have a country.Anybody for a revolution? I sure the fck am!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get these moronic right wing fearbased bigots out of office as fast as possible while we still have a country.Anybody for a revolution? I sure the fck am!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=440549', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mitch Schapira</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/not-a-lawyer/comment-page-2/#comment-440536</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Schapira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Someone asked who the robo-thugs behing Gonzo are. I don&#039;t know, but when one of them adjusted his jacket, he revealed two automatic weapon clips. I am guessing FBI.</description>
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