Reply #9: I don't see it [View All]

Granted, the ravages of capitalism are rampant (although the Knights Templar built the precurser to the international banking system in the 13th century by the simple expediant of charging a fee on every transaction) but Iran's ban on usury is superficial. In reality, banks and financial institutions simply find other ways to charge what amounts to the same thing.

Iran is in the crosshairs because of oil. Not selling it but controlling access to it. Wars in Iran and Iraq push the price of oil higher. Via profit-sharing agreements, the IOCs make out like bandits from this. Which industry are Bush and Cheney heavily involved with? In fact, some (including myself) think the Iraq war was deliberatly designed to fail and plunge the country into civil war, thus removing Iraq's four million barrels a week from the global market and pushing teh price higher.