To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Tell Congress: Stop Trump's troop deployment to Syrian oil fields!
You must reclaim your war powers to decide when, where, and whether the United States goes to war. Please speak out against the Trump administration’s deployment of troops to Syrian oil fields to "secure" the oil!
Why is this important?
Trump announced that he plans to station U.S. troops at Syrian oil fields — indefinitely — to "secure the oil" and steal it.
It may all seem like just another Trump absurdity. Perhaps a way to distract from his greenlighting of Turkey’s attack on Syrian Kurds, or even his own impeachment troubles. But Trump seems deadly serious — and that’s terrifying.
From Iraq to Venezuela to Syria, Trump has openly talked about stealing other countries' oil. And now he's <span class="profanity">pledging</span> to use the U.S. military to do just that. But let’s be crystal clear, this is illegal and unconstitutional.
Here’s the thing. The way this is supposed to work, is Congress decides when and where and whether the U.S. goes to war. It’s a bedrock of our constitutional system of checks and balances — exactly to protect against this kind of disgusting mission.
That's why we need to make Congress do its job and block Trump's reckless, exploitative, and destructive foreign policy in Syria. And that means getting loud RIGHT NOW.