Kucinich: Bush setting stage for wider war

[helderheid]

Kucinich: Bush setting stage for wider war
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007


WASHINGTON, D.C – Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement tonight in response to President Bush's nationally televised address to the American people.

"President Bush appears to be setting the stage for a wider war in the region. He has blamed Iran for attacks on America. The President is vowing to disrupt Iran. He is going to add an aircraft carrier to the shores off the coast of Iran. He has promised to give Patriot missiles to 'our friends and allies.' Isn't one war enough for this President? It is time the media and the Congress began to pay attention to this President when he talks aggressively about Iran and Syria.

"It is imperative that Congress step up to its constitutional responsibility to restrain this abuse of executive authority by notifying the President that we will no longer agree to fund the war in Iraq. The supplemental budget request of up to $100 billion would enable the president not only to continue the war against Iraq through the end of his term. It would give him the resources to attack Iran, in the name of defending Iraq and the region."

"In Iraq, his new plan is a plan for more door-to-door fighting, more civil war, more civilian casualties, more troop deaths, more wasted money, more destabilization in the region and more separation from the world community. The President wants to send more troops to Baghdad, where they will work to quell a civil war. Only a small portion - less than 20 percent - of the new effort will be spent in al Anbar, to fight al-Qaeda. Does anyone in this Administration have any sense left at all? They are sending more US troops into the middle of a civil war!

"Congress needs to take a stand against the President and take the necessary steps to bring our troops home. We need to begin talks with Iran and Syria -- and not blame them for our misguided war in Iraq. Diplomacy is the only way to avoid a widening war. If we follow the President's path of war, we will get . . . more war."

On Monday, Kucinich announced a 12-point plan (www.kucinich.us) to withdraw troops from Iraq, establish an international security and peacekeeping force under the auspices of the United Nations, and take steps to begin the political reconciliation process, shore up Iraq’s economy, re-start reconstruction efforts, and institute reparations for Iraqis.


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[BayCityProgressive]

1. I hope Kucinich get smore support

when he runs for president this time. Even if he somehow got the nomination and lost the genreal election...we really need a movement leader who will set forth a brave progressive agenda. Politicians aren't going to stop the rampant corruption in our government. Only a broad powerful peoples movement in the streets and local governments will.

[Dangerman]

2. I have a bad feeling about this...

George Bush is a psycho. He'll send more troops in the midst of civil war!

Say what you want about Saddam, but under Saddam, the Sunnis and Shias were living together in harmony. Now that he's dead, they will rip each other's hearts out. And now it's all-out civil war, and Bush and his invasion is DEFINITELY responsible for all of this!

Kudos to Kucinich for realizing the dangers of this immoral war. If the American public voted him as president, he may have a chance to set things right.

I hope Bush is impeached AND IMPRISONED soon. He'll turn America into a fascist police-state if we let him second his two years and commander-in-thief.

I'm glad that Kucinich is one of the few heroes we have in this dark age. And we need heroes.

[hashibabba]

3. Good for Kucinich. I'd like to see him do better in the election

process in 2007 also. We have to get powers removed from George Murderer Bush, now. He's too dangerous to leave loose. I know we've known that for a long time, but with him now planning on attacking Iran, we've got to do more to stop him. Much more.

[bluewave]

4. Kucinich is awesome.

Trying his best to diffuse this before it gets out of the gates. Too bad the media blacklists him.

[Iwasthere]

5. they are using Orwells 1984 as a Bible

I have been saying that all along. WAR IS PEACE! Read the book again...

[BayCityProgressive]

6. We cannot allow ourselves

to back imperialist Dems or DLC members. Iraq isn't the only issue. Many Dems who were against the Iraq war support intervention militarily and economically in other parts of the world. We need to back an anti-imperialist candidate like Kucinich.

[phantom power]

7. Congress may be running out of time to prevent WWIII.

Here's what gets me. Bush backers warn us that withdrawal from Iraq will cause the violence there to spread into a regional war, yet everything Bush is doing seems purposely designed to ensure that a regional war--one that spans the Horn of Africa to the Korean Peninsula--is precisely what happens.

And nobody in Congress or the mainstream media seems to be on to that yet.

http://zenhuber.blogspot.com/2007/01/george-w-bush-decider-divider.html

[femrap]

8. Love your sig. nt

[high density]

9. He's on C-SPAN right now... NM