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Thursday, January 30, 2003
A Matter of Life, Death -- and OilWeapons of mass destruction are cited as the spur for a U.S. attack against Iraq. Perhaps the real motive is something just as urgent? Terry Macalister, Ewen MacAskill, Rory McCarthy wrote from Baghdad in the Guardian:
“One of the most popular themes on the placards of anti-war demonstrators across the U.S. and Europe is that the looming confrontation is primarily about oil. U.S. and British ministers dismiss such a charge as the stuff of conspiracy theorists, and instead argue that the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, has to be dealt with for one reason: the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. And, yet, western powers have been fighting over Iraq's ‘black gold’ for decades.”
Target Oil is organizing an international day of action against the oil industry, on Tuesday, Feb. 4. In Washington, the protest will be at noon in front of the American Petroleum Institute at 1220 L St. NW.
Hundreds of people from around the DC area will converge on the offices of the American Petroleum Institute and demand that U.S.-based multinational oil companies stop their intense lobbying efforts to start an unprovoked war with Iraq. Let’s send the message to the heart of the problem: BIG OIL. For more information, send an email here or call Jason Kafoury at 202/387-8030.
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