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Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110003813
Iraq's Liberation is the Perfect Opportunity to Smash OPEC
(Wall Street Journal) Claudia Rosett - Talking straight about the twisted tyranny of Saudi Arabia is a terrific trend. We need to do it more. So let's check out another Saudi-led affront to the free world - OPEC, the 43-year-old Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It would be accurate to sum up this outfit's activities as follows: a gang of price-fixing, oil-rich thug regimes that meet to reinforce assorted terrorist-sponsoring tyrants and gouge consumers. The Saudi-led collusion that goes into keeping world oil prices high is the kind of stuff that would get private capitalists in the U.S. fried on prime-time TV and thrown in prison.