One question will show if rep or senator serious about exiting Iraq:

[yurbud]

This is the question for your representative or senator:

Will you support pulling our troops out of Iraq even if it means the Iraqis may renegotiate or even cancel contracts with American oil companies?

The Bush administration invaded Iraq, cancelled Saddam's contracts with foreign oil companies, gave them to American companies, and restructured Iraq's oil industry to their specifications, so they could profit from pumping it and restrict the flow to set the price high.

Gen. Jay Garner, first colonial governor of Iraq, said on camera that pursuing the privatization of Iraq's oil would incite a rebellion against the occupation. He was right. Of course without seizing the oil, there would have been no war.


Timeline of US oil plans for Iraq:
http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html

Detailed report on restructuring of Iraq's oil industry to benefit our oil companies:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2005/crudedesigns.htm


Palast on keeping price up:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/03/bbcs-greg-palast-iraq-war-to-cap-oil.html

DSM confirmation when Bush tells Putin war won't increase Iraq production and lower price:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-dsm-bush-told-putin-iraq-war.html

These actions are bald-faced war crimes. You can't invade a country and then steal.

Economic war crimes in Geneva and Hague Conventions:

The Hague Convention of 1907 (IV) see articles 47, 53, 55
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/195?OpenDocument

The Geneva Convention of 1949 (IV) we've broken almost every section of article 147, and Bush has personally broken article 148.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/380?OpenDocument


We invaded the country with the second largest oil reserves in the world, and essentially none of our politicians and most of our press won't talk about the oil motive beyond a glib, "we wouldn't be their if their main resource was coconuts."

Any discussion of terrorism, spreading democracy, civil war, or stability is just bullshit. They all know from Vietnam that once you pull out, all bets are off.

Every word they say about Iraq that doesn't address the oil issue is a lie. If the Democrats want to get back in power they should be the first party to start talking to us like adults instead of telling just enough of the truth to get elected.

[yurbud]

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