Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

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.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

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

There is no free market in oil.