“The United States acted swiftly to ensure that oil would remain dominantly a dollar commodity, by an executive order empowering Iraqi oil sales to be returned from euros to dollars. [President] Bush’s order of May 22, 2003 [Executive Order 13303], declaring a ‘national emergency,’ did not directly mention the dollar as such; but it directed all oil earnings into a central fund, controlled by the United States, for reconstruction projects in Iraq.”
– Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Page 190