If anyone hasn't seen Dennis Kucinich's TV spot "No more blood for oil," please check it out

Here is Kucinich's position on international cooperation as it applies to Iraq:

In the past three years, the U.S. has subjected the world community to a doctrine of preventive, unilateral, and illegal first strikes against "forces of evil" that have not attacked us. America has maintained into perpetuity an obsession with overwhelming U.S. military superiority. We have insisted that everyone else adhere to rules of international order that we have no intention of following ourselves. We have demonstrated a contempt for international organizations and any multilateral constraints whatsoever on the employment of American power.

All of this has estranged and frightened our allies and provoked enduring enmity in the councils of other governments and the hearts of citizens around the world. George Bush's foreign policies have made us new foreign enemies. George Bush's defense policies have weakened our defenses. George Bush's responses to 9/11 have made future 9/11s more likely to occur.... I am working to create a Department of Peace to stand alongside the Department of Defense. If our country must spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year preparing for war, we can spend at least one percent of that amount for a department aimed at preventing war.

The Department of Peace will seek to make nonviolence an organizing principle of society. It will present a wider range of alternatives within the councils of our government. It will offer a new clear vision of people working out their differences without resort to primitive violence, of peaceful coexistence in a tolerant world, of peace as a higher evolution of the human psyche.

Millions of citizens of the world have taken to their streets this past year to bravely protest our country's launching a foolish and dangerous war whose consequences we can still only dimly foresee. But the Department of Peace idea aspires to do more than just prevent particular wars. With a Department of Peace, we can articulate a vision of the future where humanity has abolished war itself.

More details here: http://kucinich.us/issues/internatcoop.php

Here is a link to his "No more blood for oil" spot: http://kucinich.us/node/4580

And here is a link to his 12-point plan on Iraq: http://kucinich.us/files/pdfs/12point_plan.pdf

NoFederales

and at the same time they cannot realize that you don't have to be buddies with middle east countries and still get their oil.

Going to war to protect oil is absurd. Oil is fungible. Oil from Iran is no different than oil from any other oil producing country. If Iran puts its oil on the market we will have access to it (directly or indirectly).