How to STOP the War in Iraq and prevent a War in Iran

 

February 7, 2006 – The feedback I have received in response to my articles, The liberation of the U.S. Dollar in Iraq, The approaching War with Iran: Part I & Part II , and Has BUSH forgotten about the Iranian Bourse? has been extraordinary.  I am uplifted by so many of my fellow Americans who already understand the truth about why the United States invaded Iraq.   It also gives me hope to know that so many people understand the real reason why the United States is preparing for a possible invasion of Iran.  However, as positive as the feedback to the Muckraker Report has been, many people have also expressed how frustrated they are by knowing the truth, but not knowing what to do about it.  The ‘what to do about it’ answer is simple.  We the people must do whatever it takes to abolish the Federal Reserve System and return our currency to a gold or silver standard immediately.  It is the ‘how we do it’ part that will prove to be most treacherous because the Creature from Jekyll Island,[1] the Fed, will not die easily.  In order to kill it, the creature will need to be dissected and utterly slaughtered. 

 

If you have already read my previous articles referenced above, you know I do not believe that if the United States invades Iran, it will have much, if anything to do with Iranian nuclear ambitions.  It’s all about the money – not our money, because the United States of America doesn’t print money any longer, but the Federal Reserve System’s money! 

 

Here is the straight talk on Iran. If the United States of America cannot find a diplomatic method to thwart Tehran’s scheduled opening of the Iran Oil Bourse on March 20, 2006, we will bomb and / or invade that country.  The Iran Oil Bourse is a grave threat to the economy of the United States and our way of life because it has the potential to render the federal reserve debt notes commonly called U.S. dollars, worth less, much less, than they are worth today.   Despite this fact, the mainstream media has not, and will not cover the Iran Oil Bourse story.  You should make it your business to find out why. 

 

The background facts are as follows:

 

• Presently, all oil purchased in the world, all oil, is purchased with U.S. dollars 
  • If China buys oil from Russia, it does and must do so with U.S. dollars
  • If India buys oil from Iran, it does and must do so with U.S. dollars
  • If France buys oil from Venezuela, it does and must do so with U.S. dollars
• Forty percent of all U.S. dollars in circulation are held by foreign nations
  • Every nation that consumes oil must have some U.S. dollars on hand so that it can purchase oil.  There is no alternative currency to purchase oil
• Currently, all worldwide oil transactions are processed through two oil exchanges
  • The New York Mercantile Index Inc.
  • The International Petroleum Exchange
    • Both are American owned private corporations
    • Both only accept U.S. dollars
• The Iran Oil Bourse will become the 3^rd worldwide exchange in which nations can purchase oil
  • The Iran Oil Bourse will become the 1^st exchange that conducts all of its oil transactions in and with euros - not dollars  
• The Iran Oil Bourse, if opened, will create an opportunity for foreign nations to dump the greenback in favor of the euro
• If enough nations exchange the U.S. dollar for euros because they no longer need dollars to purchase oil, the United States of America will experience a economic ‘nuclear’ attack that has the potential to make the Great Depression of the 1930’s look like a period of prosperity

 

The cause of all this currency vulnerability and economic insecurity is the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  This conglomeration of private corporations with nearly 100 years of its claws entrenched into the backs of American labor, is the root cause of most every war, and most certainly the War in Iraq.  The Federal Reserve makes unpopular wars possible because it funds wars.  Not only does it fund wars, it most often funds both sides and all sides of any war.  War is big business for the Fed.  For example, the current price tag for the War in Iraq is now estimated at $400 billion, all of which has been borrowed by the U.S. Congress from the private corporation, the Federal Reserve System, at face value plus interest. 

 

If you oppose the War in Iraq, if you truly want to bring our sons and daughters home, then you must recognize that the funding to wage war in Iraq flows out of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  The U.S. taxpayer pays for the funding plus interest through the federal income tax apparatus as well as the manipulation of the money supply, which eventually triggers the hidden tax called inflation.  Inflation confiscates currency and keeps the American people locked into a perpetual state of indebtedness to the Federal Reserve System. 

 

 The fact is that the U.S. Congress and the President of the United States have a fast track to wage war because they are able to borrow fiat money, paper money with no value because there is nothing backing the money such as gold or silver, from the private corporations that make up the Fed.  Americans that want to bring our troops home absolutely must understand that it is the funding that must be stopped to end the war, and the most direct and thorough path to cut off the funding is to rise up and demand the utter destruction of the Federal Reserve System and the absolute abolishment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  I emphasis again - the Fed along with its member banks, shareholders and associates, must be pulverized and annihilated.  No half measures will suffice.  To leave any trace DNA will allow it to mutate and reform once again.  The creature must be destroyed. 

 

After 9/11, American patriotism might have been at the highest level in our nation’s history.  Americans were shocked, hurt, and enraged by the tragedy we witnessed on that fateful day.  Regardless of whether you believe the government’s official account of the events of 9/11 today, back in September 2001, most of us wanted vengeful justice, and fast.  It didn’t take long before the press identified Usama bin Laden, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the terrorism network called Al-Qaeda as the source of the 9/11 attacks.  Americans knew we were going to war, and to a man, most were all for it.  But how would the United States pay for it? 

 

There are only three ways the federal government of the United States can pay for a war.  It either has to raise taxes, reduce spending proportional to the cost of the war, or borrow the money from banks.  This is a very important fact that must be understood.  After 9/11, if the federal government would have told the American people that the United States was going to invade Afghanistan to root out Usama bin Laden and the Taliban, but to do so would require an increase in taxes or major cuts in federal agencies and programs, I suspect that the majority of Americans would have voted in favor of such a request.  We would have been willing to sacrifice and tighten our belts if that is what it took to get justice.  Yet while the people would have been willing to pay for the War in Afghanistan, we were not asked to make any financial sacrifice before invading Afghanistan because the U.S. Congress simply borrowed the money to go to war from the Fed. 

 

Unfortunately for the U.S. taxpayer, when the U.S. government borrows money from the Fed to fight a war, we the people pay principal plus interest on the loan, just like on a credit card.  So the War in Afghanistan is going to cost the American people more money than is necessary because there is the bank’s interest tacked onto the final price tag.  How so-called conservatives in Congress and the White House can live with this rationale is beyond me.  One thing is for certain.  The member banks that own the Federal Reserve System are delighted! 

 

Now recall the federal government’s run-up to its invasion of Iraq.  Patriotism then was more anchored to principles than emotions.  Many Americans were not so certain the Bush Administration made its case for War in Iraq.  Even the U.S. Congress was found to have much more dissent than when it gave the President of the United States two years earlier, a free pass to make war during its War on Terror.  Rightfully so, many Americans just were not convinced that invading Iraq was the right move and in the best interests of the United States.  As the public debate raged, the war plans were drawn, and the United States invaded Iraq.  The rest is history. 

 

Where did the money come from to pay for the War in Iraq?  What is the funding mechanism that is supporting the ongoing war effort and will continue to pour hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars into Iraq at our labor’s expense?  The Fed.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.  It is the Fed that makes the ongoing War in Iraq possible and its decades long continuance, probable.  Unless we kill the Fed, we the people and generations to follow will be indebted to the Fed, a private banking syndicate that prints the money at a few cents per copy and then charges face value plus interest when our government borrows it, forever. 

 

If you oppose the War in Iraq, now is the time to focus your energy on killing the Fed.  If you do not think invading or bombing Iran is in the best interest of the United States, focus your energy on killing the Fed.  If you are tired of fluctuating interest rates, housing bubbles, inflation, and deflation, focus your energy on killing the Fed.  If you’re tired of fighting like hell to get out of debt, only to be bombarded with credit card offers and loan consolidation schemes that merely spread your remaining debt over a longer period of time to the delight of the bankers - focus your energy on killing the Fed.  If you think it is in the best interest of the United States to have currency with real value and wealth building potential because it is one hundred percent backed by gold or silver, then now is the time to focus your energy on abolishing the Fed.

 

So how do we do it?  Grassroots organizations in every community are where to begin.  If such an organization does not exist where you live, start one immediately. Call it the Goldback Club. Every week, write and mail the same letter to you congressman and senators in the U.S. Congress, asking that they abolish the Federal Reserve System expeditiously and in a fashion that ignores the cries of the banking elite, while remaining advantageous to the future financial security of the people of these United States.  Send other letters to your family and friends asking them to do the same.  Work with your state legislators to encourage your state to pass a resolution to be delivered to Washington DC that proclaims your state’s official request that the U.S. Congress abolish the Federal Reserve System, confiscate all of our nation’s gold and silver back from the Federal Reserve banking syndicate, forgive all debt owed to the syndicate by the American people and foreign nations, issue title to all property currently held hostage by the Fed, and fully establish a gold or silver backed currency and coin that is in compliance with the Constitution for the United States of America. 

 

Talk is cheap and so is the Federal Reserve System.  Enough blood has been shed on behalf of the banking cartel that seized our country back in 1913.  It’s time we the people turn the tables and bring back some good old Liberty Tree justice to the Fed and the evil men with bad intent that profit from it.  It is a moral imperative that we cannot ignore any longer.  A few voices will not be heard.  What we need now is a currency revolution!  It starts here and now with you and me.

 

Never, ever give up this fight.  Our very lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren depend on our taking action now.   The U.S. Congress does have the power to abolish the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  Ask your elected officials if they will support the rise of the Goldback!  If your congressman and senators will not commit to killing the Federal Reserve System, ask their opponents in every election from now until the task at hand is complete, if they will be Goldback candidates.  Finally, if the two-party juggernaut, the noose knot, will not do the American people right, well then we the people will just have to run our own Goldback candidates and win back our economic freedom ourselves.  If that’s what it takes to get the job done, so be it.  It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get it on! 

 

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Freelance writer / author, Ed Haas, is the editor and columnist for the Muckraker Report.  Get smart.  Read the Muckraker Report.  [http://teamliberty.net]  To learn more about Ed’s current and previous work, visit Crafting Prose.  [http://craftingprose.com]