Reply #54: Better read Kucinich's response

[JDPriestly]

The Atlantic

Update: Rep. Kucinich's office has sent The Atlantic Wire a statement in which the congressman flatly denies Al Jazeera's report, claiming that the document in question is simply a summary of Kucinich's public positions on the Libyan campaign by a Libyan bureaucrat who never consulted with Kucinich himself:

Al Jazeera found a document written by a Libyan bureaucrat to other Libyan bureaucrats. All it proves is that the Libyans were reading the Washington Post, and read there about my efforts to stop the war. I can't help what the Libyans put in their files. My opposition to the war in Libya, even before it formally started, was public and well known. My questions about the legitimacy of the war, who the opposition was, and what NATO was doing, were also well known and consistent with my official duties. Any implication I was doing anything other than trying to bring an end to an unauthorized war is fiction.

The Washington Post article cited in the document reproduced by Al Jazeera references Kucinich's sponsorship of a resolution to end U.S. involvement in Libya but doesn't summarize Kucinich's more detailed questions about the intervention.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/report-su...