The Israelis bombed and destroyed Saddam Hussein's long range missile facilities. They also bombed Syria's nuclear weapons operation.

It is estimated that Iran will make nuclear bombs within a year. Israel or the United States will destroy Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran will stop all shipping out of the Persian Gulf. Oil and gas prices will head higher.

We have the ability to provide all our energy needs. All we have to do is open up off-limit areas for drilling. We have 10.4 billion barrels of new oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. We would drill wells in only 0.01 percent of these 19.6 million acres.

We have 85.9 billion barrels of oil in other off-limit areas of the lower 48 states. Also available would be 400 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Global warming is one giant hoax. Carbon in the air has been increasing each year.

Since 1998, Earth warming has stopped and we have experienced record low temperatures in many parts of the world.

Earth's temperature variations are caused by the changes taking place in the sun, not by green house gases.

Thomas Crosswhite

Grass Valley