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In reply to the discussion: We won't have Dennis Kucinich to kick around anymore. [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)20. We are losing a great Democratic legislator. Progressive, compassionate, insightful, intelligent,
and honest.
A toast, to a man of genuine integrity.
Remember this, old friends?
The Bloodstained Path
by Dennis Kucinich
The Progressive magazine, November 2002
Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted, and illegal. The Administration has failed to make the case that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the United States. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to 9/11. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda. Nor is there any credible evidence that Iraq possesses deliverable weapons of mass destruction, or that it intends to deliver them against the United States.
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We know that each day the Administration receives a daily threat assessment. But Iraq is not an imminent threat to this nation. Forty million Americans suffering from inadequate health care is an imminent threat. The high cost of prescription drugs is an imminent threat. The ravages of unemployment is an imminent threat. The slowdown of the economy is an imminent threat, and so, too, the devastating effects of corporate fraud.
We must drop the self-defeating policy of regime change. Policies of aggression and assassination are not worthy of any nation with a democratic tradition, let alone a nation of people who love liberty and whose sons and daughters sacrifice to maintain that democracy.
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America cannot and should not be the world's policeman. America cannot and should not try to pick the leaders of other nations. Nor should America and the American people be pressed into the service of international oil interests and arms dealers.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Bloodstained_Path.html
by Dennis Kucinich
The Progressive magazine, November 2002
Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted, and illegal. The Administration has failed to make the case that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the United States. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to 9/11. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda. Nor is there any credible evidence that Iraq possesses deliverable weapons of mass destruction, or that it intends to deliver them against the United States.
----
We know that each day the Administration receives a daily threat assessment. But Iraq is not an imminent threat to this nation. Forty million Americans suffering from inadequate health care is an imminent threat. The high cost of prescription drugs is an imminent threat. The ravages of unemployment is an imminent threat. The slowdown of the economy is an imminent threat, and so, too, the devastating effects of corporate fraud.
We must drop the self-defeating policy of regime change. Policies of aggression and assassination are not worthy of any nation with a democratic tradition, let alone a nation of people who love liberty and whose sons and daughters sacrifice to maintain that democracy.
---
America cannot and should not be the world's policeman. America cannot and should not try to pick the leaders of other nations. Nor should America and the American people be pressed into the service of international oil interests and arms dealers.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Bloodstained_Path.html
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I love me some DK. I hope he can find a better way to help the world than the U.S. Congress.
valerief
May 2012
#2
I told him that he would have to get involved locally for a couple of years before
eridani
May 2012
#46
It was the OWS people that changed the dialogue from that of the Tea Idiots.
cyclezealot
May 2012
#41
We are losing a great Democratic legislator. Progressive, compassionate, insightful, intelligent,
Zorra
May 2012
#20
And he could have been in the 1% if he chose to. And had he done that, he would be a Senator by now
sabrina 1
May 2012
#40
I deeply appreciate everything that Dennis Kucinich has done to check the frauds & crooks
pacalo
May 2012
#47
I hope that Dennis Kucinich will keep working for honesty, openness and justice, as he always had.
JDPriestly
May 2012
#49
Love you Dennis, we will miss you! Dems are ridding the progrssives from the party.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2012
#54