Submitted by Bruce Josloff (United States), Jan 27, 2009 at 20:27
This all but confirms the urgency, or should I say, requirement for the United States to make a concerted effort to end its oil dependency on these theocratic Islamic States and that tin pot Venezuelan demagogue. By itself, the thought of ten thousand inbred Saudi Princes sitting on billions of barrels of oil and determining the fate of the remnants of the free world is not a pleasing picture.
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