LETTER TO CONGRESS: Last Chance to stop a war crime

[yurbud]

To my congressman and senators:

As Congress is reconciling the two different Iraq supplemental appropriation bills, I urge you to REMOVE the hydrocarbon law benchmark.

Invading another country and restructuring their economy and government to make it easier to loot is a war crime as defined by the Geneva and Hague Conventions:

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/09/iraq-oil-war-resources.html

While most Americans are only dimly aware of the oil companies machinations before the war and their pressure on the Iraqis now to pass the Hydrocarbon Law, using our troops as a gun in their face, the Iraqis are acutely aware that their oil wealth is in the process of being stolen as are their neighbors.

If you allow this to go ahead, you will be complicit in this crime, and show that you know the "War on Terror" is nothing but an excuse to steal, and that you approve of actions that increase the threat of terrorism.

If you can't bring yourself to stop this, at least do your duty and investigate the role oil has played causing the war and the administration's reluctance to leave Iraq.

One thing these Bush years have proven: the American people are stupid, but not as stupid as Bush administration assumed. Don't make the same mistake they did and think we can be fooled by bland platitudes in place of Bush's blunt intimidation and fear-mongering.

I admire your work on many issues, but not your silence on this central cause of the Iraq War.

Find your senators:
http://senate.gov

Find your congressman:
http://www.house.gov/

[porphyrian]

1. Amen. - n/t

[IndyOp]

2. Excellent Job! (n/t)

[cascagraphic]

3. kick

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Well done.

!!

[scarletwoman]

5. Excellent! I'm happy to give your post its 5th rec! (nt)

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[yurbud]

7. a more extreme version on trade bills that our reps vote for even though they screw us

Like a lot of Third World countries, on the most important issues, we have only the appearance of democracy. When oil companies want something done, we are out of the loop apart from the token debate about ANWR.