The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

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