Tell your MoC's - Block the Oil Grab in Syria

 

Senator Dianne Feinstein

SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712

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Senator Kamala Harris

SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi

SF Office(415) 556-4862

DC Office: (202) 225-4965

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Rep. Jackie Speier

San Mateo Office(650) 342-0300

DC Office(202) 225-3531

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Call Script

My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.

I’m calling to ask the Congresswoman to please amend the Defense Appropriations bill to ban use of funds for the control or seizure of Syrian oil. I also ask her to introduce and support a War Powers Act resolution blocking this unilateral use of military force.


Context

Last month, Trump suddenly withdrew American military forces in Syria that were simultaneously protecting our Kurdish allies and fighting ISIS. Then he redeployed troops to occupy and “seize” the Syrian oil fields which had been under Kurdish protection. He stated that the purpose of seizing the oil was for the U.S. to profit from the oil while preventing ISIS (who he had previously declared “defeated”) from taking it, and also to prevent Syrian, Turkish, or Russian military forces – with whom we are not at war – from controlling it.

After Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11, Congress passed the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) against those responsible. Since then, presidents from both parties have expanded that AUMF to justify the Iraq War and military intervention in dozens of countries, including fighting ISIS in Syria. However, even the AUMF does not justify the current activity in Syria.

There is no legal justification for a U.S. military occupation of Syria's oil fields or engaging in combat with Syrian, Turkish, or Russian military forces with whom we are not at war. The 2001 AUMF against Al-Qaeda does not provide legal grounds for pillaging Syria's oil or turning it over to American corporations. Doing so violates the Fourth Geneva Convention, the 1907 Hague Treaty, and the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996. We cannot allow more illegal, unapproved warfare, and a War Powers act must be introduced to prevent it.

'We're keeping the oil' in Syria, Trump says, but it's considered a war crime, ABC News, 10/28/19

U.S. military envisions broad defense of Syrian oilfields, Reuters, 10/28/19

Trump’s Baffling Plan to Pillage Syria’s Oil, New Yorker, 10/31/19

Trump OKs Wider Syria Oil Mission, Raising Legal Questions, NY Times, 11/5/19


 

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