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This article was about the silliest bunch of tripe I have read in a while on Free Republic. The war in Iraq is older than the Euro. Think about that. We have been at war in Iraq for over 12 years. Way before the Euro was ever launched. Iran is building a nuke program. It doesn't matter whether France is stilling using the Franc or not- those mullahs are trying to get their hands on nukes. All this currency conspiracy doesn't change that one iota.

One could perhaps say- "Shoring up the dominance of the dollar is a knock-on effect of trying to bring the war in Iraq to a conclusion- but to say it is the reason is just madness.

This war for the Euro/Dollar was a popular conspiracy over at Dem Underground for a while. They'll believe anything over there so it probably still is.

If you read my comments carefully, you would have seen I never said it was the only reason, nor did I say it was the main reason for the US in the war. What I did say is it was an underlying reason for French and German opposition to the War in Iraq, along with the billions of dollars in contracts they had signed with Saddam.

I posted the full article because I did not want to be accused of taking anything out of context, but my focus was on the Euro vs Dollar and it's economic impact, which was the focus of the middle part of the article.