Both US Senators representing Washington State, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray currently sponsor the 110th Congress’ Senate Resolution 580. This resolution demands that the President follow the same course of inspection and international action in Iran that lead up to the war in Iraq.

We do not need a war with Iran. We cannot afford our current military expeditions much less new ones with Iran. Iraq is costing us thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, all needlessly.

Please write to these Senators and the other 24 co-signors of this bill. Tell them not to extend this needless, wasteful violence to Iran as well.

Iran is of little to no consequence. What Iranian Navy and Air Force threatens Washington or any other of the United States? Iran — and everyone else in the world — will be happy to trade their oil to us as long as they believe in the status of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

The most important matter to the national security of the United States is to prevent the collapse of the US dollar. Our greatest enemy is the federal reserve’s endless expansion of the money supply.

We cannot force the world to accept our dollars forever when Bernanke is trying so hard to make them worthless. No, we must tighten our belts and work hard to show the world why we have the greatest and most productive economy on the planet Earth. We can begin to do so as soon as we halt the Federal Reserve’s continual corruption that makes it more profitable to shuffle money around than increase production.

After all, Washington state has some of the country’s greatest businesses: Microsoft, Amazon, Nordstrom, Costco, Boeing…

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