OK Baz, something like a drunk sitting in a bar saying, "I wish somebody would come along and close this bar, or tell me to stop drinkin' so that I can go home".

You have the freedom to do whatever you chose to do. Once again I repeat the United States of America is NOT, repeat, NOT dependent on oil from the middle east - your consumption is around 20 million barrels of oil per day - you import about half of that - of those imports about 15% comes from the middle-east - so dependency upon middle-east oil translates to about 7.5% of total demand - not really all that significant.

Take a look at those figures - You and those like you who are trying to convince me and the rest of the world that the US is in the middle-east, has been in the middle-east for decades, to "steal" oil for their own ends. Well they're making a really good job of it aren't they Baz? Just think of that, all those lives, all those resources, all that energy, all that money - just to get their hands less than 10% of what they actually need. Absolutely ridiculous, it just does not stand up to enquiry or examination.