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FROM A READER

Published: June 25, 2008

Editor:

To drill or not to drill? That is not a question but rather a smokescreen. It's just another diversion from the truth. Just another dose of fear.

As Americans struggle to make ends meet, Exxon, BP, Shell and Total sit poised to get no-bid contracts to work Iraq's oil fields. It was more than 30 years ago that Sadaam Hussein nationalized Iraq's oil. Now, amid a falling economy and failed international policies, America's major oil companies have a chance to reclaim their hold in the Middle East – a hold that was denied them by Sadaam.

More than 4,000 American soldiers dead, thousands more wounded, a crumbling American infrastructure, a presidential campaign under way and the political media feeds the hungry American population an all-you-can-eat buffet of petty personal attacks, complete with sound bites of preachers.

GOP officials want signed statements that all will walk in lockstep behind the party rules and condemn any who would vote for the better candidate over the appointed candidate, while the Dems fret over someone wearing a head cover.

American oil companies are waiting for their share of the spoils of war. There are no angels, only the shadows, the monsters and us.

Peno Hardesty
New Port Richey

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