[doubtingthomas2]

Bold and underlined text are mine.

[AppyPappy]

Recycled Desert Shield material

[hellinahandcart]

Bold and underlined text are mine.

You don't say.

< /eye roll >

[Bikers4Bush]

I find it hard to take seriously anyone who writes for the "Cape Cod Times".

[dighton]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

Bold and underlined text are mine.

Yecch, it gets all over the fish.

[hellinahandcart]

Title is "yours", too. That is frowned on here.

[ohioman]

This post needed a "Dumb Piece of Shiite Alert" attached to it.

[1rudeboy]

Bold and underlined text [and title] are mine.

Credit where credit is due. Perhaps the title should read "Rich, multi-national oil companies conspire to drive price of oil into the ground."

[habs4ever]

And so what? As if oil supplies aren't a vital national interest? can this guy recall gas lines in 1979, or the cost of oil zooming in 1973? Nope, too much peach fuzz on that face, but soooooooo much insight...

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like the same old Bravo Sierra trotted out by the vile/evil Opecker Princes who really profit from oil then fund terrorism and those who try to distract from that terrorism and blame big oil. This is the same old tired Bravo Sierra that we saw before Desert Storm, during Desert Storm and right after Desert Storm.

Time to quit beating around the Vile Opecker Princes! They are the evil ones on earth with their Opec and how they finance terrorism throughout the world.

Time to kick their A$$es and Take their Gas.

Then do some good detective work re did they finance a lot of these articles blaming big oil.

Without Big Oil, none of us could buy gasoline.

Don't like Big Oil go buy your next tankful from Club Sierra, the DNC or apologists for the vile Opecker Princes!

[ravingnutter]

Even the pro-Iraq former UN Inspector Scott Ritter has dismissed the oil theory...

Ritter dismissed oil as a motivating factor behind our coming war with Iraq. He made a good defense of this claim. Yes, Iraq has the second-largest oil reserves on earth, a juicy target for the petroleum-loving Bush administration. But the U.S. already buys some 68% of all the oil produced in Iraq. "The Navy ships in the Gulf who work to interdict the smuggling of Iraqi oil," said Ritter, "are fueled by Iraqi oil." Iraq's Oil Minister has stated on camera that if the sanctions are lifted, Iraq will do whatever it takes to see that America's oil needs are fulfilled. "You can't get a better deal than that," claimed Ritter.

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