It's not about the oil. Oh.....................................(next email i open.)

Remember
this, from January 2003...?

Tony Blair today derided as "conspiracy theories" accusations that a
war on Iraq would be in pursuit of oil, as he faced down growing discontent in
parliament at a meeting of Labour backbenchers and at PMQs.

Well,
four years later, we have this:

Now, unnoticed by most amid the furore over civil war in Iraq and
the hanging of Saddam Hussein, the new oil law has quietly been going through
several drafts, and is now on the point of being presented to the cabinet and
then the parliament in Baghdad. Its provisions are a radical departure from the
norm for developing countries: under a system known as "production-sharing
agreements", or PSAs, oil majors such as BP and Shell in Britain, and Exxon and
Chevron in the US, would be able to sign deals of up to 30 years to extract
Iraq's oil.

Hence this:

In the light of Tony Blair’s statement to parliament on 18/3/03 that
'the oil revenues, which people falsely claim that we want to seize, should be
put in a trust fund for the Iraqi people administered through the UN', the
statement from the Iraqi trade unions that 'We strongly reject the privatization
of our oil wealth, [] and there is no room for discussing this matter. This is
the demand of the Iraqi street, and the privatization of oil is a red line that
may not be crossed.', and reports in the Independent (Future of Iraq: The spoils
of war 7/1/07) that Iraq's oil is 'about to be thrown open for large-scale
exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is
expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days,' we petition Tony
Blair to keep his word, support the Iraqi people and ensure that Western
corporations are not allowed to pressure the fragile Iraqi government to sign
contracts to privatise Iraq’s oil.

Sign the petition here.