Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

There is no free market in oil.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.