LTTR TO SEN: Reveal and reject real reasons for Iraq War

Sen. Feinstein:

I just read your letter asking the FTC to explain allowing the mergers of oil companies, and wanted to THANK YOU for addressing one of the issues that not only is affecting our economy, but our democracy.

I urge you to join Barbara Boxer in demanding that the oil company executives testify under oath about the Cheney Energy Task Force.

There is a public perception that the war in Iraq is about oil, and journalists like Greg Palast, Naomi Klein, and Greg Muttitt have done an excellent job of documenting this motive as you can see here:

http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html
http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2005/crudedesigns.htm

Klein in particular addresses the issue of whether it is a war crime according to the Geneva and Hague Conventions to invade and restructure Iraq's oil industry to favor our oil companies.

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

The work of these journalists though lacks the credibility and authority of a congressional investigation.

Congressional Democrats have done a good job of letting the public know the stated reasons for the war were false and manufactured.

Now we need you to take the next step and make the real reasons equally clear, so the public can intelligently decide which policy option to support.


Foreign policy strategists at PNAC and even Democratic former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski have talked about the strategic goal of controlling the oil and other natural resources of Central Asia and controlling the Middle East oil spigot to have veto power over the growth of other nations' economies.

At the very least, there is a prima facie case that the war's purpose was to replace French and Russian contractors pumping Iraq's nationalized oil with a privatized or PSA scheme.

If congressional democrats fail to make these true motives clear and repudiate them, voters can only conclude that you agree with those motives and would support or instigate similar wars for the same reason.

Senator, I do not want my country to have a foreign policy that benefits very, very few Americans at the expense of the rest of us in our tax dollars, lives, and reputation in the world.

The best way to fight terrorism is to stop letting oil companies use our intelligence agencies and military for hostile take overs of foreign oil fields.

Very damn good!!!

:yourock:

in criticism of the war.

The only possible explanation is they are saving their ammunition for after the '06 election--or they want to take over as the oil companies errand boys.