Not since the Barbary Pirates of some two centuries ago, has the Middle East held us up to extortion in a fashion similar to today! “The only problem is that, back then, we had politicians and businessmen who were genuine patriots and had courage!”

Every day, the banner of each and every news rag in the nation slaps us in the face with a headline of - “The price of oil rises to a new high!” And every day, we prove that we will do nothing about it, but rather, sit back and take it upon the chin! It is sought of like us rising from slumber on December 8, 1941, learning of the attack upon Pearl Harbor, then rolling over and going back to sleep!

Don’t we fools realize that Americans are dying in the Middle East, and this in no small part because of oil! Hell, Japan went to war with us some six plus decades ago, in no small part because of oil! “Who would have ever thought that a few million tons of rotting vegetation and animal decay would cause so much grief in eons to come?”

“You had better have no doubts about it - this is war and the enemy is winning!” Be that foe the oil producing nations of the world, the cartels that they contain, those who manipulate gas and food prices, or the governments of the world themselves! Americans are, and will die in this conflict! Maybe not from Japanese Dive Bombers, strafing Zeros, or even outright sabotage, but we will die, or at the least, be turned into a “Subservient Third World Nation”, especially if the buzzards pulling the strings on fuel prices, domestic and foreign alike, get their way. “Of this, have no doubts!”

“Beware of those, hiding behind the scene, pulling the strings and proclaiming their innocence or ignorance! For abject greed knows no limitations, ignorance no boundaries, and betrayal is not limited to nationality!” (hrt-16 May 2008)

VERITAS (Truth)