This really brings your credibility into question. Here are several different credible sources that say the U.S. has a dependence on oil from the Middle East:

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testi...mony051020.pdf

http://www.iags.org/n1020032.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...ael/usoil.html

http://www.anwr.org/features/issues/energy-nat.htm

http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol2/v2n4oil_body.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FC11Ak02.html

http://www.meforum.org/article/1055

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