[John David Powell]

Thanks for your comments.

I do take exception, though, at your synonym for “a lie.” I mentioned the Persian Gulf countries because we continually hear about our dependence on “Middle Eastern oil.”

If one really wants to get down and dirty about OPEC, let’s make sure we take aim at Venezuela and that blustering, Castro-sucking, little peasant freak they have for a president

[eleni121]

Chavez is small potatoes when it comes to oil. But yes, I share your characterization of this lunatic.

We should be worried - no, panic stricken about OPEC. OPEC is funding machine for international terror INC.

I merely suggested that by not mentioning OPEC and its stranglehold on us you were leaving out the elephant in the room.

And what I neglected to mention earlier: yes a fine article albeit incomplete. Too many in conservative circles are shamefully enamored of the “Arab sheiks” and Muslim “democracies” such as the one in the parastate of Turkey.