Are you trying to imply that the Bush administration is NOT controlling oil prices? I don’t believe that Muslims should carry special IDs, but it is obvious that Bush is murdering thousands of Iraqis just to keep them out of the oil business and keep prices rising. Now, the oil industry, Bush’s biggest special interest, is keeping supply up temporarily, and prices down. Where do you think the price of a gallon of gas will be in April 2007? I will bet that it will be at least 20% higher than now.

I am not saying that G.W. Bush personally sets oil prices, but can you really think that this Texas oil millionaire (billionaire?) isn’t manipulating them to get richer? The Bush family is known to be friends with OPEC royalty, and he is obviously capable of a conspiracy. The war in Iraq undeniably caused prices to go up, and this is not the first time OPEC has opened supply in an election year. Bush sent troups to Iraq on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction, but by the time he admitted the weren’t there, it was too late, and he still refuses to withdraw.
I don’t agree that almost everyone refers to U.S. citizens as “Americans”. It isn’t broken English, but it confuses people who don’t speak U.S. English fluently. Even it a lot of people say it that way, it is still clearly wrong. Look at the constitution and the declaration of independence, the two documents that created this country. Nowhere to they refer to it as “America”. The founding fathers knew better. By the way, it is not ignorant, just lazy, but I said it makes us LOOK ignorant.
Iain: The reason not to do this is that other americans (Canadians etc.) will think we are talking about them when we are not. It is just a sloppy habit we should break.