actually, it's pretty clever (so, he didn't think of it, he got lucky)
with the war and such the dollar got low, and the euro could take over the first position
with that, investing in american industries and such becomes cheaper and investing in europe obviously not
now, with a low dollar, it's easier to get that money to build an american government in Iraq and he will get that money with investors who profit from said dollar
then after a while the economics will get better and the US will once again have a strong currency and beat the hell out of the euro