mubarak and us. my feb 15th article for vegas voice.

In watching the coverage of the Egyptian revolution I could not help but notice that one thing that was, as far as I heard, not mentioned on any of the networks and that includes MSNBC was that Egypt was one of the countries the we, The United States of America, sent people to for them to be tortured. Others in that rather dubious list are Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Morrocco,Saudi Arabia, and Isreal. Now, if I know this and it is indeed public knowledge then surely the talking heads on tv must have known that as well and if they didn't, it is damn sure their bosses did but still no mention of a very, very salient point. Mubarak was a brutal dictator that used emergency powers (which were in effect for 30 years....if something exists for thirty years it is not an "emergency" it is a lifestyle) to not only imprison his own people and subject them to unspeakable horrors it did it to other people in OUR name. And you know who else knew that he tortured people in our name? Every single Muslim in the Middle East, that's who. When those same Muslims hear us giving our oh so pious platitudes about how much we love democracy and abhor torture, the see us as the world's biggest hypocrites.

Now the so-called "leaders" in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria and probably Turkey are pooing in their collective pants because they see the handwriting of liberty on the walls of their secret prisons, the murmers of revolution in their streets, the ringing of the bell of freedom in the cell phones and computers of their down-trodden subjects. So what are we to do? Continue to prop up these countries who kill, maim, torture and imprison their own people so that they, like Mubarak, can reap the rewards of American dollars and live in luxory while their subjects live in squalor? Or are we finally going to quit selling our soul for oil and pull out of the Middle East and expand our own oil industry here in our country?

Where do you think we get the majority of our oil from? Here is the list of the top nine countries from whom we get our oil. 1. Canada 2. Mexico. 3. Saudi Arabia. 4. Venezuela. 5. Nigeria. 6. Angola. 7. Iraq. 8. United Kingdom. 9. Brazil. Two countries in the Middle East and we are occupying one of them. We DON'T NEED MIDDLE EASTERN OIL. Save our country, save our souls, save our dignity, save our honor......get out of the middle east. Let them eat that damn oil if they don't want to make us a fair deal. Let freedom spread across that area of the world and if they choose radical Islam, so be it. They no bitch against us if we are out of there.