The following direct transcript was taken from a speech by DENNIS KUCINICH, 5/5/07, in Venice at the West Los Angeles Democratic Club. It is too appalling to imagine that the new Democratic majority put into office to stop this war would be doing Bush's bidding and selling out to the multinational oil corporations. Let's tell them what we think of this.
This was about 40 minutes into the speech:
"You would think that by reading the reports that this bill was going to take us out of Iraq. Not a chance. What it would do, it would remove a substantial number of U.S. troops, to be sure, but an equally substantial number would stay. Why would they stay there? They would stay there to protect the contractors. They would stay there to run special missions. It doesn't end the occupation. The base is still staying there. The occupation continues.
But there was another provision of this bill that most American citizens don't even know about. This bill had provisions that the White House asked for, and the Democrats said to the president, okay, this is what you say you want, well we're going to give you what you want. Here's the provision is the provision that I argued against in the Democratic Caucus. This is the provision that says that the Iraqi government must privatize its oil."
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