….because Dennis Kucinich will be invoking a rarely used rule to speak for an hour about Iraq’s oil:
The Truth About Oil and IraqDear Friends,
Please watch C-Span this morning, Wednesday, May 23 at approximately 11 am EST.
I will invoke a rarely used House rule of personal privilege to gain one hour of time in Congress for the purpose of discussing in detail the Congressional and White House efforts to privatize the oil of Iraq.
Oil was the primary reason for the invasion of Iraq. There were, of course, no weapons of mass destruction, no connection between Iraq and 911, no connection between Iraq and Al Queda’s role in 911. Despite that the Bush-Cheney Administration, with the approval of a Democratic-controlled Senate and the Democratic leader of the House, supported and commenced a brutal campaign of shock and awe, of bombing, invasion and then occupation of Iraq.
Iraq may have as much as 300 billion barrels of oil untapped. With oil headed toward $70 a barrel, the oil wealth of Iraq could be worth as much as $21 trillion. Nearly 3,400 sons and daughters of America have been sacrificed. As many as 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed in the course of the US occupation. The taxpayers of the United States will pay between one and two trillion dollars for this war, which is based on lies.
Throughout this entire murderous enterprise, I have consistently challenged the war, challenged our right to be in Iraq, and challenged my own party about its commitment to peace. Many of the Democratic candidates for President say they are for peace but keep voting to fund the war in Iraq. They say they are for peace, but they vote for legislation which will privatize the oil of Iraq, thus insuring that there will be no peace. Why? Because the privatization of Iraqi oil will be rightly seen as one of the greatest acts of thievery of one nation against another.
Sincerely,
Dennis Kucinich
Can our country be lucky enough to have Dennis Kucinich switch to Independent? Yes we can! Let’s hope he considers it at some point. He’s very good at feeling the mood of the nation and in listening, so I know he’ll do what is right for all of us. 
Wow! The privatization of oil in Iraq is a HUGE scandal. DubyaCo has simply stolen the Iraqi oil to line their pockets.
Disgusting.
HillCountryGal Says:
Wow! The privatization of oil in Iraq is a HUGE scandal. DubyaCo has simply stolen the Iraqi oil to line their pockets.
Disgusting.
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That is the status quo for this administration isnt it.
dit dit dit dit dit…..
Newsline …. .. We have found out the reasoning as to why gas prices have risen during this last week . An oil company exectutive was overheard bragging about the latest reasoning “well tuesday fell on a tuesday last week”
More to come later ,,,,,,,, { satyrical comment ends }
While this is an example, I dont think it is far off the mark. It makes just as much scense as any excuse we have heard from anyone else. The consumer is at the mercy of a bunch of greedy self serving b$%&%$#s.
Can our country be lucky enough to have Dennis Kucinich switch to Independent? Yes we can! Let’s hope he considers it at some point. He’s very good at feeling the mood of the nation and in listening, so I know he’ll do what is right for all of us
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I agree with a lot of what Kucinich has to say. I especially agree with his opinion as to how we got into this war.
I will never support arbitrarilly cutting off the funding for the troops. I have NO PROBLEM with language that would hold Bush accountable, and the further deployment dependant on goals.
But I ask you this.
If by voting for Dennis Kucinich or any other 3rd party candidate, it would allow the republicans to retain their power, would you still vote for that candidate ?
Would you be happy to have ANY republican as the president come 2009 ?
I am unclear as to your position vis a vi the upcoming election. Could you please clear this up ?
I should have, but I watched Monica’s testimony instead. That was a waste.
I like Kucinich and agree with him more often than not. But if he were to run as an independent, I’d even vote for Hillary. {{TomCat barfs in his trash can.}}
A Republican in the White House, appointing the next round of Supreme Court Justices, is NOT an option.
The knowledge that the U.S. invaded Iraq to gain control of it’s oil reserves and to establish long-term bases in the region has been known for a long time. Although I appreciate Kucinich for making it officially known on the floor of Congress, they have all known so since the beginning as well as most savvy “dirt-diggers”; i.e., home-brew intelligence analysts.
Many people don’t realize that we had bases in Saudi Arabia for years even prior to Gulf War I, but by the time Gulf War II; Operation Iraqi Freedom came about things had changed drastically in S.A.. Saudi Arabia is filled with anarchists that hate the Saudi rulers and wish them to be overthrown. So to appease those factions which had become quite dangerous we were asked to leave our strategic locaion in S.A. This put the U.S. in a bind since we couldn’t go back into Iran. Back in the 60’s and for much of the 70’s we enjoyed base presence in Iran during the cold war, but once the Shah fell out of favor and had to fell the country, so did the U.S. ending with the Iranian U.S. Embassy crisis during the tail-end of Carter’s presidency.
So that left the U.S. with the only option but to create another Saddam based crisis by accusing him of non-compliance concerning the conditions of the Gulf War I settlement and the false allegations that Iraq was loaded to the gunnels with WMD’s which turned out to be not true and further that this excuse to attack was based on “cooked” intelligence via the Wolfowitz-Feith-Cheney rogue intelligence pipeline.
Saddam served the U.S. well over the years. We provided him with weapons up to and including WMD’s;i.e., nerve gas during the Iraqi-Iranian 10 year war that resulted in the deaths of at least one million Iranian/Iraqi combatants. He was also our buddy during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan facilitating our connection to the Mujhadeen “holy warriors” that were fighting the Soviets, led by our “then buddy” Osama bin Laden!? On and on this pattern of exploitation and then double-crossing goes on courtesy of our out of control M.I. Complex/oil patch axis and it’s all about the acquisition of oil either through legal or illegal means. Oil to these mattoids is like heroin to a street junkie as well as to the millions of users of this resource on a daily basis. The resource is taken for granted and is being grossly mismanaged;i.e., wasted.
Cheney’s recent visit to Bagdhad was really for oil/gas company related business. He had to do some serious mano a mano hand/shoulder “pressing” to give the duty puppets that they best get crackin’ and not screw up by taking two-month vacations which causes embarrasment to the administration.
So get it in your heads folks, it’s always been about oil and a long-term military presence. Nation-building, democracy and all the other feelgood pap that’s pushed out to the unwashed masses is nothing but propaganda, plain and simple. Islamic nations do best under either theocracy, dictatorship or a combination of the two. There will never be any Disney Theme Parks, Costco’s, Wal-Marts, nor McChicken’s on every corner.:)) If we come back in 500 years they will still be slugging it out in their rocky, sandy, wasteland over Shia/Sunni differences. This is what they do, and what they seem to do best. Even the value of the oil under their land comes secondary to last relative to their Islamic religion. I’ll provide a link concerning Cheney’s recent visit to Bagdhad.
http://www.pissedonpolitics.com/2007/05/iraq_oil_bush_chevron_bp_shell.htm
Re: Post #5
The link is down at the bottom ending up with a weird .html programming format split…?
Nemo **==
texasoil.com
Yep Lee, you’ve been Exxon.com, Txu.com and now Texasoil.com. Loser.
Lee loves oil and hates Americans. Not surprised! His Fuhrer and his jackboot licking men/women also feel the same way!
Yep, Lee loves the idea of democracy for the Iraqis being their oil stolen out from under them so Exxon can have more record profits and not use those profits to update their facilities. Traitor.
Lee and his GOP are traitors to America and the world. The End.
I consider Lee’s last comments to be terroristic threats and should be reported to Homeland Security and the FBI, particularly since these threats are crossing state lines, so to speak.
Kay, if you can forward me his latest ISP account numbers, I’ll get right on it.
Pee in Houston hates people
over 70% of the USA and most of the rest of this planet by the tone of his latest raving face dribble here,
nuff said……..
You’re not very computer savvy, are you, Lee?
I agree 100% with Kucinich,on this war, BUT he has all kinds of problems from when he was a mayor in Ohio – Cinncinatti or Cleveland? – i just remember there was scandal.
HillCountryGal:
Bush has turned down several war ending plans by the Iraqi Government because the Iraqi’s will not privatize their oil. So Bush has never agreed with anything they have put forth. He is truly a greedy criminal.
I will do that Asta.
Everyone here hates Lee.
Asta, let me know if you want all of Lee’s comments here on my blog too.
Kay, where are you, girl? Hope all is well.