APEC, American Petroleum Extortion Cartel(Our present government)

April 25, 2009

The Iranians are once again flexing their muscle. Now, I’m going to say something very outrageous here to some. And this is going to – you probably haven’t heard it put like this. We have a decision to make here, we really do, regardless of the President Obama, regardless of the President’s predispositions to withdraw on all these other things. We have a decision to make here. And the decision to make is not about windmills and solar panels. The decision to make is this. The entire purpose, and Vice President – not only is he the Vice President, he’s also a member of the hair plugs for men – Biden last week admitted that we were in Iraq, we were in the Middle East to protect the free flow of oil. We’re doing the Saudis’ dirty work for them, in other words. This is a deal that was entered into back in the 1970s. We should get out of it.

And so when I tell you what I’m about to tell you, bear that in mind. There is no need for the United States of America to import a drop, not a solitary drop, of foreign oil. Not from the Middle East, anyways. We don’t have to. We don’t need to. It is not necessary. We have more than enough oil right here at home. It would be a massive statement of American resolve to say that we have decided to free up and auction off all the federal lands – and we should do this anyways – that the federal government currently claims that they own. Auction them off to the highest bidders or give them back to the states that they reside inside, and let the states do with them what they will, and let the exploration begin right here at home. You don’t need tankers. If you’re an environmentalist, you ought to love this idea. No supertankers traversing the ocean, waiting to be cracked open and kill a bunch of dolphins and seals and gulls and what have you. Return the oil exploration right back here where it started en masse, and get out of that region save for the continuing hunt – and special ops can do this – of al Qaeda.

And if we’re not going to do that, well, the Iranians are going to continue to jack with us. And they’re going to continue to test us. I mean, this is history repeating itself. Does anyone, I mean, I’m just – I’m blown away by this. Does anyone not remember the 54 American hostages held for 444 days that were released on the day of President Reagan’s inauguration because they knew that it was coming? That the Iranians have been doing this for 20-plus years with impunity, and they have no intention to stop right now? And they’re not ever going to stop unless they are stopped, or we can choose to not do business with them and to not allow them to dictate where our boys in uniform go because we have to protect the Saudi king’s oil flow? “Mike, you sound like a conspiracy theory.” No, I’m just – this is pragmatic here.

Now, if you’re going to say that we have to have, we’ve got to protect the Saudi oil, and I’m going to tell you that for what reason? Why? Why do we have to? Well, because the Chinese need it. Well, then let the Chinese do it. They can make their own deal with Mahmoud. They all think alike. There’s also the part of this that tells me that the Russians, the Russkies, need $70, $80 a barrel prices for oil. This is how the Russian economy works. The Russian government doesn’t have any money unless they can sell all the oil that they have. So if you create mayhem and mischief in the Middle East, and then you start convincing people that, why, the free flow of oil from the Middle East is endangered here, then the prices are going to start going up, and speculation begins. Well, then the Russians and the Iranians and all the other little tyrant dictators over there benefit.

The United States could unilaterally put an end to this by simply stating that we’re out of this game. You guys, you can murder yourselves. Have at it. We’re going to open up – we got this guy, Bakken Oil Reserve. We got three trillion barrels of oil sitting right beneath the surface of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah. We got this guy called Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, also known as ANWR. We got, what? Three billion barrels of oil in ANWR? We don’t know how much is on the Northern Slope. It’s hard to get to. But ANWR is easy to get to. We don’t have to do this. This is by choice is my point. And it allows us to be pushed and cajoled about by foreign tinhorn dictators. And they, by fiat, then determine our foreign policy and where our troops must be stationed across the globe to protect someone else’s interests. And it’s, I tell you, I don’t believe that it’s a coincidence that these bombs are going off at this very moment in Iraq. It’s just that it begs the question, there, of what is the Obama administration, and what are they doing about this? What are they going to do about it? You should be genuinely concerned about this, especially if you lost a son or, God forbid, a daughter in that war.

Thanks to my friend M. Church