Wooodamnwhoo Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH!)

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), who has led opposition within the Congress to the war from the beginning, issued the following statement on the war Supplemental funding bill on the House floor Monday evening:

"Mass death on the installment plan. That's what this supplemental vote to keep our troops in Iraq is all about.

"Today Iraqi civilian casualties number well over 100,000. Iraqi civilian injuries could be over one million, but who is keeping track? Some act as though the Iraqis are not real people, with real families, real hopes and real dreams and loves of their own.

"We have lost nearly 2,500 of our own brave soldiers. Up to 48,000 troops have suffered physical or emotional injuries that could scar them and their loved ones for life.

"Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Steiglitz says the war could cost $2 trillion dollars. Two trillion dollars for war while the American people are told we don't have enough money for job creation, education, health care and social security.

"The Administration went into Iraq without an exit strategy not because they are incompetent, but because they have no intention of leaving.

"We are spending hundreds of millions building permanent bases in Iraq. The Administration recently announced deployment of no less than 50,000 troops in Iraq far into the future. We are looking at the permanent occupation of Iraq.

"And so the long cadence of lies has led to Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Haditha, soon to be replaced by more lies and more tragedies.
"What can you say when you are watching your nation descend, sleep walking, into something like the lower circles of hell in Dante's Inferno?

"You can say stop it ! You can say enough blood is enough blood !

"You can stop it ! Bring our troops home !

"You can say no to any more funds for this war ! And then we can begin a period of truth and reconciliation about 9/11 and Iraq. Begin the healing of the soul of America.
The Bible says, 'He who troubleth his own house shall inherent the wind.' Our house has been troubled by this war based on lies. What will our inheritance be?"

Team Kucinich
http://www.kucinich.us

He is one of the few who actually calls the right-wing on what they have done (and continue to do).

He always tells it like it is. Kucinich '08!

wished he was mine....

People need to hear what Dems are saying. And not reiterated by the GOP (Fox News).

It's time to put a stop to the madness.

Please don't let anyone forget the billions given to the ultra rich in tax givebacks, while we pay for this war.

. . . the psychiatric conditions that seem to be quite common among politicians - things like narcissism, borderline personality disorder, etc. I came up with the brilliant observation that wanting to be a politician is almost certainly a psychiatric disorder all by itself.

I asked her if there were any sane politicians, in her opinion. She mentiond Kucinich right away as being one of the few who were actually sane. I really wish we could have him as president.

Insanity is thus, according to M. Scott Peck, a willingness to live with lies.

Kucinich is sane.

The rest of the politicians are BEYOND insane - they not only live with lies, they tell themselves lies and they believe they are morally right to tell us lies.

"What can you say when you are watching your nation descend, sleep walking, into something like the lower circles of hell in Dante's Inferno?" - Dennis Kucinich

The quote above and observations below are from TahitiNut in a thread I posted last night about the same speech

He comprehends the depth and breadth of the corruption - the pure evil that infests this nation.

Hubris - The "ownership society." A pathological narcissist prancing on the world stage.
Greed - The Enronization of the world. Off-shoring.
Extravagance - What else can we call more military spending than the rest of the world combined?
Envy - Hating people for whom they love.
Gluttony - Fast food nation. Obesity as the foremost health problem in a starving world.
Wrath - What else can we call "Shock and Awe"? What else can Coulter's emblematic rhetoric indicate?
Sloth - Surrendering our democracy - we can't be bothered. We "let George do it." Profiting from the labor of others.

amazing. Such fervor. Amazing patriot! Loves our troops, and not just when it is easy to do so. He does want them to be fodder. Not only that he cares about the normal everyday Iraqis who are being killed, something most people don't care about at all.

Dennis is one of the great ones.

He's a maverick this Kucinich. We need more Democrats like this....someone who's not afraid to bunk the party "centrist" orthodoxy to speak out on what he really believes in.

I wish someone would do a documentary on his 2004 campaign.

American, I say, "Dennis Kucinich"...

or rather WE need him to be president to begin to heal this country and restore dignity to the White House.

There is a reason the media made fun of him, and the democratic party ignored him. Kerry would barely let him speak at the Democratic convention and made sure it was not in prime time, and he apparently could not say anything about the war, nor could anyone else.

Dennis saw through the bullshit from the beginning and said so. He saw through the new
"Iran Freedom Support Act" and spoke against it on the House Floor...even when his anti war friends in congress like Conyers and Woolsey voted for it.

He is the true leader of the House of Representatives and should be the leader of the country.

I got ridiculed for wanting Kucinich as POTUS in 2004. To bad people don't want fair and balanced gummit. :(

:patriot: patriots they! behind 'em all the way!

The are what it is. :patriot:

. . . and you have four of the only sane people in national politics, IMNVHO.

Not that women aren't on my short list too.

(Just kidding of course)

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Cynthia McKinney and Barbara Boxer are definitely right up there on the admiration chart. But men face down men bettter than women face down men unless the woman has a gun. Yes that is a very sexist remark, but truth to power is what I'm talking!

Two great sons of Ohio Democrats.

You totally rock!

:)

and all truth, as well. Ohio is lucky to have him.

10. Iraq war policy
9. Oil company criminal investigations
8. Karl Rove crimes trial
7. Education funding system
6. Religious broadcasters investigations
5. Environmental policy
4. Same-sex marriage
3. Break up of corporate media
2. Election fraud/Diebold criminal trial

and the number one item is...
1. Bush Family Evil Empire trial (Poppy, Neal, Chimpy, Babs and Jeb)

Man, Dennis would be busy...

given day. What was that song (Arlo Guthrie? Country Joe?) about two gathered together would be a something, three would be a whatever. (My memory is shot!) Maybe we could foment a small revolution in the halls of government. Imagine!

It was in Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant", and I can sympathize: if you're old enough to remember that, then you're old enough to have a hard time remembering it.



http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml

we need more like him. more money for this useless and endless war, what a waste of human life, this has got to stop, really.

speech? I looked at the home page link given in the opening post and couldn't find this speech - and I want to save it.

is put up at someplace like Crooks & Liars or Can-o-Fun. The transcript is important, but I'd love to see him say the words.

Perfectly stated. Just perfect.

YEEEAAAAARRRRRRGH!!!
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Right on Dennis!!

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"You can stop it ! Bring our troops home!"

Dennis speaks for me!