Media Advisory: Kucinich to issue statement tonight

Earth_First

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:19 PM
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Media Advisory: Kucinich to issue statement tonight

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the Party's most vocal critic of the war in Iraq, will issue a statement tonight following President Bush's 8:30 p.m. (EDT) news conference.

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sjgman9

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:21 PM
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1. I guess this is the end

Dennis, I bet your'e dropping out now. You had a good run man, but I guess now you have to run for re-election and explain a lot of stuff to your confused constituents.

Dennis, you did a lot of good in the Debates. You and Dean kept the other guys on their toes and honest with straightforward unrestricted liberal leanings. Keep up the good work

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Earth_First

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:28 PM
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3. Concession is a little presumptuous I believe...

respectfully, I believe that this has more to do with addressing *'s statement on Iraq rather than concession...Dennis is in this until the convention in Boston.

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MsSnood

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:58 PM
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5. He's not calling it quits. He's offering a counter response to Bush,

I'll bet. But there's no way he would use a Bush press conference to drop out of the race.

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rucky

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Tue Apr-13-04 06:12 PM
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7. That ain't it. He did one of these after the SOTU, too

it's a smart move to get the dissenting voice right out there.

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Safi

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:27 PM
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2. I bet he calls for impeachment

He isn't dropping out, he still wants/needs the platform to spread his message.

-Safi

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sniffa

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:36 PM
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4. wiLL it be on somewhere?

on one of those fancy moving-pictures?

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Earth_First

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Tue Apr-13-04 05:51 PM
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6. The statement from Coos Bay, Oregon will not be broadcast...

rather available for viewing on the www.kucinich.us website

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twilight

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Tue Apr-13-04 06:40 PM
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8. kick

I can hardly wait to hear what Dennis Kucinich has to say ... :evilgrin:

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

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hippywife

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Tue Apr-13-04 06:42 PM
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9. I Still Stand With Kucinich!!

Go get 'em, Dennis!!!

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dweller

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Tue Apr-13-04 09:44 PM
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10. Any news on this statement?

not seeing anything on the website, nor followup here.

:kick:

dp

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GreenPartyVoter

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Tue Apr-13-04 09:52 PM
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11. Anything yet?

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dweller

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Tue Apr-13-04 11:25 PM
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12. KICK

:kick:

dp

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LWolf

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Wed Apr-14-04 06:46 AM
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13. Here it is.

Right on the front page; a transcript, no audio:

http://kucinich.us/statements/statement-041404.php

Kucinich responds to Bush press conference
April 14, 2004

President Bush failed again to answer the one most crucial question that is on the minds of all Americans: when will our troops come home from Iraq?

Instead, he promised more of the same no-end-in sight vision that has marked this unjustified and illegitimate war from the beginning.

His answers to questions about how long our forces will remain were as vague as ever and wholly predictable: “We’ll stay the course. We’ll complete the job. We must not waiver.” And, he said, the United States will continue to “occupy” – his word – Iraq “as long as necessary.”

If more troops are needed, he said, he will send them. “Any concession or retreat,” he said, “will embolden the enemy.”

When will the President realize that our very presence in Iraq has become a lightning rod for increased hostility and increased violence? We can’t afford to stay the course. We need a new course – a reasoned and responsible way out, not a political rationalization for keeping our troops at risk indefinitely. And sending even more troops into harm’s way.

Given the President’s unhesitating willingness to send more and more of our young men and women to a war that was launched on lies and exaggerations, how long will it be before he resorts to a reinstatement of the draft to feed the demands of a thoroughly flawed and totally failed foreign policy?

We went to war for the wrong reasons. We continue to be at war for the wrong reasons. And it’s time to ask the United Nations to assume responsibility so our troops can come home.

This can only come about by the United States' taking an entirely new direction. We must reconnect with the world community through the United Nations, let go of ambitions to control the oil and the contracts, to privatize Iraq, or to run the government by remote control.

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twilight

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Wed Apr-14-04 04:59 PM
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14. Best man running for President IMO ...

Major kick for Dennis Kucinich ... he suggested all of the answers to Iraq a long time ago ...

Keep going Dennis!!!

:dem: :kick:

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