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Oil and Saudi Arabia
Reader comment on item: [Freedom House report on] Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques
in response to reader comment: Oil and the Bush administration
Submitted by Ron F (United States), Sep 17, 2006 at 14:28
"As long as oil is the most important issue, anything bad about Saudi Arabia will be overlooked - especially by this administration. " Muriel C.
This poster is right, and to be balanced should have inserted by "this and every other Administration" for decades.
Time to wean ourselves from oil dependence.
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