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2007-02-14 Fifth Column

Stop the Bush Death Juggernaut: Exchange Your Dollars For, Um, Some Other Currency!

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Posted by Mike 2007-02-14 00:29|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do you think that if we follow Paul's advice, we can talk to Iran and agree that Iran should have an atomic weapon and the green light to use it on Israel, and we get some Iranian promises on Iraq? Gee, why didn't Bush think of that?

Posted by whatadeal 2007-02-14 01:09|| 2007-02-14 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The dollar will decline at some point, but not until China stops recycling its trade surplus (into US Treasuries).

Posted by phil_b 2007-02-14 01:12|| 2007-02-14 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or we could, y'know, form a ring around the Pentagon and chant "Out demon out!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-02-14 01:15|| 2007-02-14 01:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm dumping dollars as quick as I can, and investing heavily in Mmbul, Gaw, Fe' or Rai, Yar, and Reng. These currencies are very stable and are part of a fairly inelastic money supply. I will prolly need to get a bigger mattress to keep them in.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 01:21|| 2007-02-14 01:21|| Front Page Top

#5 If you are going to stuff the cash in your mattress, wouldn't you want it to be part of an elastic money supply for the cushiony springyness?

As for the article: the rawest form of evil the world has ever seen, far surpassing in evil the atrocities of the Nazi and Communist regimes. - A joke maybe? The only explanation I can think of is someone slep thru history class. Or spends too much time reading lefty websites.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-14 02:56|| 2007-02-14 02:56|| Front Page Top

#6 In what currency are the Iranians paying Mr. Roberts?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-14 02:58|| 2007-02-14 02:58|| Front Page Top

#7 The games will be over if we see a mushroom cloud above an American city. An Iranian nuke should be a death sentence for traitors and they should know it beyond the possibility of doubt.

If an Iranian nuclear weapon goes off in the United States or Israel, every surviving moonbat, leftist, peace hypocrite, and freelance liar who has thwarted our efforts to prevent it, or has supported those who do, or has demonized our intentions and facilitated the Iranians in any way, should be hunted down and killed at once.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-14 03:52|| 2007-02-14 03:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Good grief. I haven't read anything by Paul Craig Roberts in a long time; when did he go off the deep end???

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-14 06:25|| 2007-02-14 06:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently, BDS is a communicable disease.

Posted by Bobby 2007-02-14 06:45|| 2007-02-14 06:45|| Front Page Top

#10 20 years ago, he made a lot of sense. I guess senility has struck early.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-02-14 07:22|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-02-14 07:22|| Front Page Top

#11 It won't be one mushroom cloud. It will be 500.

Posted by ed 2007-02-14 07:24|| 2007-02-14 07:24|| Front Page Top

#12 The Bush Regimes ability to wage war

Ah Paul that means America would loose it's ability. Makes you wonder if liberal traitors are born that way,,, or just a side affect of mental illness.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-14 07:37|| 2007-02-14 07:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Dumping The Dollar? Saddam Hussain did that ten years ago!

Posted by Glineting Slert2228 2007-02-14 08:29|| 2007-02-14 08:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Some analyses I've seen recently suggest that the budget will be balanced when Bush leaves office. Revenues are way up. (Still have those pesky interest payments though.)

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-02-14 08:48|| 2007-02-14 08:48|| Front Page Top

#15 The demise of the US dollar is only a question of time.

From the Chicago Boyz
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004789.html

One Western-trained Chinese economist said: We just dont know how to do capital markets. The only countries that get the message proper financial risk accounting, etc are the ones that were formerly in the British Empire. Anglo-Saxons seem to have something the rest of the world just hasnt got.

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Asked about reserve diversification, a senior Chinese official told a leading Western banker that China took the long view: In half a century from now, there will still be the dollar and there will still be China. What this remark dryly acknowledged was a truth overlooked by the decline of American power school. Viewed from one angle, the US is the worlds biggest debtor. Looked at from another, however, it has taken over the business of managing the worlds savings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-14 09:11|| 2007-02-14 09:11|| Front Page Top

#16 The Bush Regimes two largest lenders are China and Japan. It is ironic that Japan, the only nation to experience nuclear attack by the US, is banker to the Bush Regime as it prepares a possible nuclear attack on Iran.

That one sentence alone shows Roberts' BDS. And, a complete lack of Logic 101. Not to mention understanding that pesky cause-effect thingy.

Posted by BA 2007-02-14 09:20|| 2007-02-14 09:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Here is a great listing of currencies for Moonbats to invest in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_currencies

My personal favorite would be Lower Slobovian Rasbukniks. Having no value, this would make each and every Moonbat a multi-billionaire, so that they could dominate the top 1% of all income earners and tax themselves into national prosperity with a 100% tax rate.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-14 09:27|| 2007-02-14 09:27|| Front Page Top

#18 They should all invest in Flanian pobble beads. I'll handle the conversions, at a rate of 20 pobble beads to the dollar.

Just give me time to get to the craft store...

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-02-14 10:12|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-02-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

#19 In what currency are the Iranians paying Mr. Roberts?

That reminds me of a quote from a historical fiction novel I just read about Elizabethan England:

"The enemies of England are always paid in francs."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 11:52|| 2007-02-14 11:52|| Front Page Top

#20 To really torque the Bush Regime they should sell dollars and buy Rantburgia currency.

It really surprises me when ex administration folks go whakky. Not just ex Reagan, but LBJ's Attorney General and a few other big names. I always wonder, where they nuts in the job, did the job make them nuts, did leaving the job and finding their life worthless afterwards make them crack?

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-02-14 11:59|| 2007-02-14 11:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Thanks to Mike's in-line comments, I now not only know what "immanentizing the eschaton" means (though it sounds like a big leap from Gnostics to Hillary Clinton), but I know that The New Politics of Science by David Dickson (1988) is a play on The New Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin (1952).

I love the intartubes.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-02-14 12:01|| 2007-02-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

#22 I think Paul just wants to see a dip in the dollar so he, himself, can buy them for less.

Hey, why not take advantage of those other BDS losers?

Posted by Shineger Unatle5424 2007-02-14 12:24|| 2007-02-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

#23 I now not only know what "immanentizing the eschaton" means

Me too, kewl.
And a couple french pundits I really appreciate have already mentioned the gnostic undertones/roots of socialist thought and socialism in general, including national-socialism and communism(and thus freeing "orthodox" Christianity of the oft-repeated accusation of having fathered it through a secular heresy),... so I guess this is not such a weird idea now that I know a very complicated bok made the same point 5 decades ago.

Does this means chavez is in fact locked in a desesperate struggle against the Archons to free Humanity's conciousness? Vow.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-14 15:27|| 2007-02-14 15:27|| Front Page Top

#24 That is positively the loopiest editorial I have read in ages. We can only hope that he convinces like-minded "vulture financier" George Soros to attempt to short the dollar into oblivion and thereby rein in America's power. Nothing would be sweeter than watching Soros bankrupted consequently.

Also, while bombing raids on Iran's nuclear sites are far from imminent at this time, the clock is ticking for Ahmadinejad & Co. Behind all successful international negotiations sit the possibility of the use of force, and America is not the only nation which is determined to see the plans of the mad mullahs of Tehran to possess nuclear weapons stopped in their tracks.

Posted by Sic_Semper_Tyrannus 2007-02-14 18:56|| 2007-02-14 18:56|| Front Page Top

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