LETTER TO CONGRESS: stop LYING about Iraq War causes

yurbud

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Thu Aug-25-05 09:40 AM
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LETTER TO CONGRESS: stop LYING about Iraq War causes

Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 09:42 AM by yurbud

I'm going to send this to as many senators as I can find fax numbers for, and mail some more including to my hawk senator, Dianne Feinstein.

RE: TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT REASONS FOR IRAQ WAR

August 25, 2005

Senator,

You probably already saw the Gallup poll that said the Iraq War is more unpopular than the Vietnam War at a comparable point, and when President Bush went to re-sell the war to the VFW, an audience he assumed would be friendly, he was met by elderly vets wearing these:

In case that doesn't come through the fax clearly, it says BULLSHIT PROTECTORS.

Senator, when the war is this unpopular, it is clear that the public is not only sick of hearing bullshit from Bush, but from you.

One way you can help us get out of Iraq is tell us the real reasons we are there and don't insult our intelligence by saying one god damn word about these things that are proven bullshit:

Weapons of Mass Destruction
Terrorism
Spreading Democracy

No one with an IQ above room temperature believes these are why we went to Iraq.

Even if Saddam had WMD, it would be suicidal for him to use them against us or give them to someone who would, and the Downing Street Minutes indicate the Bush people knew that threat was a lie. The 9/11 terrorists were funded and given logistical support by our allies, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, who far from being punished, seem to have profited from the attacks with closer ties to us. Democracy is an after-though forced on the Bush administration by the Iraqis themselves. General Garner was fired for calling for early elections, and the resumes of the Bush foreign policy team and our other current relationships with brutal dictators in Central Asia and the Arab world, including shipping prisoners to them to be tortured, shows that they do not care about human rights or anything of the kind at all.

The reasons that I have pieced together from reading PNAC documents, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jay Garner's comments on his time running Iraq, and the state department documents leaked to journalist Greg Palast:

Privatization of Iraq's oil & contracts to pump it to Americans rather than French & Russian oil companies
Military bases to influence, intimidate, and invade other oil-producing countries in the region
Gain secure access to Iraq's oil as the world's supply begins to decline
Prevent Iraq & OPEC countries from trading oil in Euros instead of dollars
Put money in the pockets of contractors as is also done through the Third World debt scam
Eliminate a perceived threat to Israel

Some of these are at least arguably in our national interest-others amount to criminal corruption. Tell us which sold you on the war, so we can decide if it was worth it.

If you continue to lie to us, you will have to be replaced in the next primary or general election with someone who actually represents the people, tells us the truth , and doesn't treat us like retarded children.

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