The Iraqi war will be about oil. Your children and grandchildren will be sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.

World oil production is peaking. Worst estimate is production will peak in 2003, a year from now. Best case estimate is oil production will peak no later than 2009.

That means that oil costs will fall under the law of supply and demand. Demand for oil is not going down, but there will be less oil available. The price of oil is going to go up. Somebody stands to make billions from future oil sales.

Oil corporations know that the last chance for making a big oil strike is not in the Arctic, but in Iraq. When Iraq nationalized its oil fields, oil corporations were thrown out of the country. They lost billions.

A successful war against Iraq will return these oil fields to oil corporations. With the coming oil shortage, these companies stand to make billions and billions of dollars.

American military industrial corporations also stand to make billions of dollars in a war with Iraq. They will make millions selling arms to countries destabilized by the war. They also will make millions selling the U.S. governement food, clothing, weapons, medical supplies, etc., to fight the war.

In the past, the American economy has prospered during a war. However, since the loss of the Vietnam War, American manufacturing jobs have been moved to Third World countries. It is questionable that the American worker or our economy will benefit from this war.

After the Gulf War, our soldiers came home sick. Nearly 10,000 have died form "unknown" illnesses. They are not considered casualties because they did not die on the battlefield. The U.S. government allowed arms manufacturers to use depleted uranium to make bullets and armor-piercing shells.

Our young men and women were then allowed to camp in battlefields irradiated by these bullets. They were allowed to climb on tanks and other military equipment destroyed and irradiated by these bullets. They were allowed to take home irradiated souvenirs.

They were not told. They are sick. What are they going to test on our young men and women this time?

After this new gulf war and the oil corporations regaining control of the Iraqi oil fields what will be next? The oil fields in Saudi Arabia? Yemen? Kuwait? How long before Pakistan, an Islamic nation with nuclear weapons, decides to join the fray?

I will support this war when the children and grandchildren of oil executives, hawks and the members of this administration are on the front lines of the first battle.