Dennis & Elizabeth Kucinich on news for trip to ME

[OzarkDem]

She is certainly a great asset to his work, drives the freepers wild! Go Elizabeth!

[LWolf]

1. Which news? Is there a link?

It would be interesting to contrast what the news had to say with what Dennis posted at his site:

http://www.kucinich.us/

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Congressman Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth have just returned from a peace-building trip to the Middle East. They visited war-torn areas in Lebanon, including Beirut and Qana, and talked separately and at length with several of the nation's leaders.

"Village after village was reduced to piles of rubble. We saw thousands of destroyed homes. We also saw bombed out hospitals, schools, factories, churches, mosques, fire stations, gas stations, cars, bridges, roads, water systems, electric systems, banana plantations, and lemon groves," Kucinich said.

"In several villages we stopped and walked through piles of concrete and dust from what had once been homes. Public areas were littered with unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. The smell of death was everywhere. Homes still standing upon closer inspection had holes in the walls from artillery shells."

And the message from Qana? After an emotional visit to new graves in the center of the town, a crowd gathered around the couple. Elizabeth reports:

"Dennis and I will never forget what followed. Here we stood in the darkness, surrounded by people who suffered great loss, who had every right to express anger or even rage, yet instead they expressed remarkable depth of forgiveness, compassion and a desire for peace and reconciliation, calling out from the crowd through interpreters: 'We do not hate America. We love the American people. We do not like what your government does. Please tell the American people that we are not terrorists. We do not hate Israel. We want to be safe in our village. We want to be left alone. We want peace.'"

The complete story is posted by David Swanson at AfterDowningStreet.org