[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13724]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                PLEASE OPPOSE THE IRAQ WAR SUPPLEMENTAL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, the Iraq War supplemental on the floor 
tomorrow will in no way pressure the President to end the war in Iraq, 
despite the fact that voters gave our majority last November the 
responsibility to do that, end the war.
  The benchmarks in the war supplemental force the Iraqis to privatize, 
or turn over to multinational oil interests, their oil industry by 
demanding passage of the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Act. I spoke on the House 
floor today for an hour documenting the evidence.
  But if the Iraqis refuse to turn over the oil resources, the terms of 
the bill are blackmail. The war supplemental demands passage of the 
Iraqi bill by blocking over $1 billion in reconstruction funds if the 
Iraqis refuse to comply.
  We need to send a message to the voters that we do not support 
privatizing Iraqi oil by force, nor do we support the continued funding 
of this war.
  It is not credible to maintain that one opposes the war and yet 
continues to fund it. Continuing to fund the war is not a plan. It 
would represent the continuation of a disaster. A better approach is 
the 12-point plan established in H.R. 1234.

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