Transcript from CNN interview

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/12/cf.01.html
CNN's Crossfire, April 12, 2005

BEGALA: Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Both President Bush in Texas today, and Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq, were talking about just how swell things are going in Iraq. But, a new survey says most Americans believe the war was not worth it. In the CROSSFIRE to debate Iraq, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -- she is a Republican from Florida, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, he is a Democrat from Ohio.

HOLT: Welcome to the program, Mr. Kucinich, nice to see you.

During the presidential campaign, you were in the primaries, running for president, and your primary issue was the war in Iraq, and how we should get out, essentially a cut and run strategy. You have to be happy that you were wrong.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D), OHIO: Well, actually, history has shown already I was right, that there was no reason for the United States to attack Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction. As a matter of fact, you know, if you read the commission on intelligence...

HOLT: We freed 25 million people. KUCINICH: We're "dead wrong." This report said that the administration was "dead wrong." We shouldn't be there, and we should work with the U.N. to get the U.N. in and the U.S. out. We still need to do that. We need to bring our troops home.

HOLT: But Dick Durbin, a colleague in the Senate, says obviously, that we can't cut and run on democracy in its infancy.

KUCINICH: You know, this report that I just got here, apropos of what you said -- I just received this, Paul, I'm actually releasing this on this program -- Congressional Research Service, here's what they say about our presence. That we're building bases in Iraq now. And they are saying that it suggests substantial U.S. investment to improve facilities that could be used for the longer term could be perceived as indicating a more extended U.S. presence. Instead of building bases and pouring money into these bases, we should be building a path out.

But we're opening schools, building hospitals...

KUCINICH: Oh, please. I mean, we can't find the money from the $9 billion. They can't account for $9 billion that was supposed to go to do the same things you're talking about. Administration says one thing and they do another. Don't we -- haven't we caught on to this?

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1. I hate Xfire too...can't tolerate that show...

never listen to the MSM since the election. Its all a farce...and the attitude of the neocons...:grr: not good for my state of mind or my BP either.

Sorry I missed Dennis but I think it would have driven me :crazy: to see how they treated him.....