Kucinich protests Army training school

HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071118/ap_po/military_school_protest_1

COLUMBUS, Ga. -Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich said Sunday the thinking that went into producing an Army school blamed for human rights abuses in Latin America was the same that led the U.S. to war in Iraq and could cause it to raid Iran.

Kucinich was speaking at the 18th annual protest of the school at Fort Benning that trains Latin American soldiers, police and government officials. One of his first acts as president if elected would be to close the school, he said.

"The type of thinking that produced this school is the same type of thinking that produced the war in Iraq and is producing a war against Iran," Kucinich said. The Ohio congressman and former Cleveland mayor was addressing a crowd estimated by local police to number roughly 10,000.

The Army's School of the Americas moved to Fort Benning from Panama in 1984 and was replaced in 2001 by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, under the Defense Department.

He has a clear understanding that institutions which aim for the destableization of other countries can only lead toward more war. If anyone doesn't understand the reason his Department of Peace and Non-violence, all they need to do is look into the history of the School of the Americas.

Go Dennis! :woohoo:
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Choose Peace!