President Bush Asserts Right to Control Iraqi Oil
October 16, 2008
October 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The Friends Committee on National Legislation issued the following news release:
President George W. Bush this week rejected a Congressional effort to bar the U. S. military from controlling Iraq's oil resources.
Before signing a bill authorizing military funding earlier this week, the president issued a "signing statement", saying that he would not be bound by a provision in the bill prohibiting expenditure of funds "to ex . . .
President George W. Bush this week rejected a Congressional effort to bar the U. S. military from controlling Iraq's oil resources.
Before signing a bill authorizing military funding earlier this week, the president issued a "signing statement", saying that he would not be bound by a provision in the bill prohibiting expenditure of funds "to ex . . .