... of Bush's central strategic insight. A democratizing Iraq -- aligned with the United States and endowed with vast oil reserves, water resources and a large, industrious population -- could transform their region for the better, bolstering ...

... faith as home to the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. The Sunni Arab powerhouse also sits on the world's largest oil reserves, buys billions in U.S. military equipment and has cooperated extensively with the U.S. on anti-terrorist operations ...

... sufferings of our fellow human beings. With the reports out of North Dakota and Montana, we have ample retrievable oil reserves in this country to rid ourselves of dependence on foreign oil, and power us into the future to the tune of several ...

... hit record highs elsewhere in the world, are now under tremendous strain. Iran, with the world's fourth-largest oil reserves, reduced its most heavily subsidized monthly ration by 20 percent to 26 gallons (100 liters) per car in March. Malaysia ...

... increase crude production in four other fields and under the same agreement. Iraq has the world's third-largest oil reserves, totaling more than 115 billion barrels. Iraq's average production for February was 2.4 million barrels per day ...

... militant Islam and the persistence of unrest in the Middle East, the region that controls a majority of the world's oil reserves, along with the rise of new "power centers," only complicate the U.S. position because, as he believes, our ...

... countering Iran's attempt to dominate the Middle East. It means that Iraq, a country with the world's second largest oil reserves and a strategic linchpin of the Middle East, just might emerge from the last five years of war and turmoil as an American ...

... rival, Sen. Barack Obama, to drop his opposition to offshore drilling. "If we can show that we have significant oil reserves off our coasts, that will clearly affect the futures market and affect the price of oil," McCain said. Obama favors ...

... militant Islam and the persistence of unrest in the Middle East, the region that controls a majority of the world's oil reserves, along with the rise of new "power centers," only complicate the U.S. position because, as he believes, our ...

... ending terrorism or freeing the Iraqi people, but simply a means to gain control of the world's second largest oil reserve," Ashley Daniels told the Fayetteville group. "Our empire's gas tank is almost empty." Bruce Gracie said he ...