If it weren't for that US dollar would carry little more respect than a peso.

Pulleeze! No offense to Mexico, which has done a lot since we bailed them out a decade ago, but it's economy is an order of magnitude smaller.

Now, your govt isn't stupid and knows this prety well, so they invaded Iraq as soon as Saddam announced that they'd trade Iraqi oil in Euros.

We're in real tinfoil territory now.