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For decades, our dependence on opec oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the middle east at an incredible price. we've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of american soldiers have died securing middle east oil.

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For Decades, Our Dependence On Opec Oil

T. Boone Pickens

For decades, our dependence on opec oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the middle east at an incredible price. we've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of american soldiers have died securing middle east oil.

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Controlled middle east oil, it would control the world. this oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. therefore, america believes if it squashed iraq, it would control the oil of the middle east and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." but it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. and that's a key distinction.

The problem is that the way [president] bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [that's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. that's irresponsible. it's unpatriotic.

When george bush came into office, we had surpluses. and now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. when george bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. it's now over $10 trillion. we've almost doubled it.

Back in 2008, candidate obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. yet by his own decisions, president obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of europe combined. one president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to opec nations hurts every american.

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