"Al Qaeda must revel in the irony that America is effectively helping to fund both sides of the war they caused. As we sacrifice blood and treasure, some of our gas dollars flow to the fanatics who build the bombs, hatch the plots, and carry out attacks on our soldiers and citizens... The transfer of American wealth to the Middle East helps sustain the conditions on which terrorists prey."

"It's pretty well established that some of the money that the United States sends to Saudi Arabia for its oil does end up trickling down to terrorists that are killing and maiming American troops"

Tyson Slocum, September 28, 2006, Fox News Channel                  

"We Need to Move Away from Oil"

Hon. R. James Woolsey, August 24, 2006, CNN                  

"America's largest oil field has been completely shut down ... This is another gigantic wake-up call to remind us how vulnerable we are. We've got to get foreign oil monkey off our back"

Glenn Beck, August 7, 2006, CNN                  

"When we ... are buying gas at the pump, that money is going to the Middle East and much of that money goes to terror"

Lt.Col. Ralph Peters, July 13, 2006, Fox News Channel                  

"We are actually financing both sides in the War on Terror. The US Army, Air Force and Marines Corps with our tax dollars; al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Iran with our energy purchases. How smart is that?"

"Doing nothing about our oil dependency will make us a pitiful giant – like Gulliver in Lilliput – tied down by smaller nations and subject to their whims. And we will have given them the ropes and helped them tie the knots. We can take on this problem now and stand tall as the free and independent giant we are by moving our nation – and the world – on to energy independence, by setting America free from its dependence on oil. ... It is time to set America free."

Hon. Joseph Lieberman, October 7, 2005, Georgetown University                  

"We as American citizens can actually boycott Mid East oil. And the way you do that is you go to a gas station whose company doesn't import the oil."

Maj. Bob Bevelacqua, August 23, 2005, Fox News Channel                

"Starting in the late 1980s -- after the dual shocks of the Iranian revolution and the Soviet war in Afghanistan -- Saudi Arabia's quasi-official charities became the primary source of funds for the fast-growing jihad movement. In some 20 countries, the money was used to run paramilitary training camps, purchase weapons, and recruit new members.
The charities were part of an extraordinary $70 billion Saudi campaign to spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi sect worldwide. The money helped lay the foundation for hundreds of radical mosques, schools, and Islamic centers that have acted as support networks for the jihad movement ..."