video you posted above.
transcript link
http://kucinich.us/?q=node/1935video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyRK_j_EsI"I'm here today to appeal to you. To say that we're losing our nation to a philosophy of war and destruction. And so it's time for policies of peace and construction. It's time for the philosophy of peace, nonviolence, and economic justice...
Now I'm not new to this issue. I led the effort in the House of Representatives in challenging the Bush Administration's march towards war in October of 2002. I organized 125 Democrats to vote against the war. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But we will spend, according to the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz,
close to two trillion for this war. No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
But there are plenty of weapons of mass destruction here in the United States, which need to be removed. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care, John Conyers knows, is a weapon of mass destruction. Theft of pensions, a weapon of mass destruction. Hopeless, a weapon of mass destruction.
Two trillion dollars for war. Imagine if those two trillion dollars, instead, had been redirected to helping to restore our cities. Let's deal with the WMD's in our cities. It's time to get out of Iraq, which did not have weapons of mass destruction, and into our American cities, which are loaded with those kinds of destructive social conditions.This, then, is a call for the politics of unity, where human unity becomes an imperative. This is a call for the politics of economic justice, where wealth creation is available to everyone. Where the government becomes an engine to create wealth for all. Where it functions to equitably distribute the wealth.
We know the challenges. The war in Iraq is the product of the same type of thinking which underlies racism: "us vs. them." The minute that there is a "they" or a "them," it creates separation. Separation is the basis for discrimination. Separation is the basis for subjugation. Separation is the basis for insularity. Separation is the basis for conflict. Separation is the basis for class warfare. Separation is the basis for war. Separation is the basis for the destruction of our environment. Separation is the basis for the destruction of our planet."