Politics Daily / Annie Snider / May 13, 2010

A photo of a smiling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad peeked out from behind the clutch of Iraq war veterans that gathered on Capitol Hill recently to press Congress to pass climate change legislation.

“I found myself not taking out the terrorists, not securing Iraq, but protecting oil,” said retired Marine Corps sniper Matt Victoriano, who served two tours of duty in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. He came to Washington with Operation Free, a project that takes veterans around the country to talk about the connection between national security, energy and climate change.

They point to the billions of American dollars spent annually on fossil fuels from hostile nations, the vulnerability that oil dependence creates for the military and the threat the conflict sparked by dwindling water supplies could spread U.S. forces thin.

Read more here…

Comments (0) · Leave a Comment