Posted on 06/24/2008 1:30:11 PM PDT by tobyhill
A group of Democratic senators led by Charles E. Schumer of New York is appealing to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to block a set of contentious no-bid oil contracts that Iraq has decided to award to the Western oil giants Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP.
And if that appeal, which Mr. Schumers office said it faxed in the form of a letter to the State Department on Monday afternoon, is not heeded, the senators will try to cut off financing for as-yet-unspecified programs in Iraq that are not directly in support of American troops, Mr. Schumer said in an interview on Monday.
The letter is scheduled to be made public on Tuesday at a news conference in Washington by several senators: Mr. Schumer, vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus; John Kerry of Massachusetts, the former presidential candidate who is a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee; and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who serves on the Armed Services Committee.
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If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress. Slimey Schumer is worried that Iraqs prediction of 10% increase per year might happen.
Pray for W and Our Troops
You may be right.
The only silver lining I can see is that the good guys likely have the most firepower.
For now.
In 5 years....with a more stable and developed Iraqi oil supply, Bush will look like a genius.
“The day will come, remember that they estimated only one third of Americans supported the Revolutionary War.”
I’m ready for another revolution. This treasonous crap by the liberals has to stop. HB
.I wish these repubs would get the courage to expose these lier anti american dems.. We the people are ****ing screaming at the administration to crush the evil dems and inact drilling by presidential order... Just pray the repubs realize the america that they love and grew up with... Schumer is to evil to let get away with his destruction of himself and the country.
it is really reaching the point when the democrats have to be treated like enemies of this coumtry and dealt with accordingly. They are Enemies of America and must be removed.
So they are soliciting the overthrow of the GoI
and a surge of forces to
destroy the ISF so that
we can impose our will on a soveriegn nation
to keep the price of oil up...
Who is donating how much money to their campaigns?
From what country(s)?
thanks for the reply tobyhill. I do understand it also takes congress, but I want the repubs and bush to push this and speak to the nation...the dems are pathetic and evil so we need tough repubs to take media action and force the dems to answer for their lack of concern... Mabey its just wishful thinking on my part... Take care tobyhill and keep up the good fight.
I agree with your zero-sum analysis, but let me clarify my point.
The leftist elitists want there to be a huge DIFFERENCE between what they can afford to do and what the commoner can afford to do.
They don’t necessarily want to have more luxuries, they just want to have WAY MORE THAN YOU do. And the best way to do that is to reduce your lifestyle through the use of coercion and pricing you out of your lifestyle.
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