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The Dodd Plan To Restore America’s Moral Authority

http://chrisdodd.com/issues/foreign_affairs

* Strengthen our Alliances. As President, Chris Dodd will work to restore our alliances, rebuild international institutions to better fight the war against terrorism, and enhance America’s security while upholding our common values.

* Diplomacy, Not More Troops in Iraq. Chris Dodd is strongly opposed to the Bush-Cheney troop surge strategy. As President, he will advance a surge of diplomacy in the region, not a surge of more troops.

* End the War in Iraq Decisively. Chris Dodd understands that ending the war in Iraq makes America safer. He strongly supports the Feingold-Reid proposal – the only responsible measure in Congress that sets a timetable to end the war in Iraq by March 31, 2008 – and he has urged all the candidates in the presidential race to join him. It is time to stand up to the President’s misguided Iraq policy.

* Hold America’s Allies Accountable. As President, Chris Dodd would engage key strategic countries, nations like Saudi Arabia and Russia, and call on them to support freedom and democracy in their own countries and to eliminate the conditions that export terrorism and allow our enemies to thrive.

* Enhance and Export Energy Technology to Free America and the World From Reliance On Oil. Chris Dodd believes we need to invest in renewable energy technology that will allow America to achieve energy independence. As President, he would share that technology with our allies to end their alliances of necessity with dictators from oil-producing nations like Venezuela and Iran.

Strength Through Peace - the Kucinich Plan

http://www.dennis4president.com/go/issues/strength-through-peace/

http://www.dennis4president.com/go/resources/kucinich-unveils-comprehensive-exit-plan-to-bring-troops-home,-stabilize-iraq/">Kucinich unveils comprehensive exit plan to bring troops home, stabilize Iraq

These are the elements of the Kucinich Plan:

1. The US announces it will end the occupation, close military bases and withdraw....
2. US announces that it will use existing funds to bring the troops and necessary equipment home...
3. Order a simultaneous return of all US contractors to the United States and turn over all
contracting work to the Iraqi government....
4. Convene a regional conference for the purpose of developing a security and stabilization
force for Iraq....
5. Prepare an international security and peacekeeping force to move in, replacing US troops
who then return home....
6. Develop and fund a process of national reconciliation....
7. Reconstruction and Jobs. Restart the failed reconstruction program in Iraq....'
8. Reparations. The US and Great Britain have a high moral obligation to enable a peace process
by beginning a program of significant reparations to the people of Iraq...
9. Political Sovereignty. Put an end to suspicions that the US invasion and occupation
was influenced by a desire to gain control of Iraq's oil assets by: A & B...
10. Iraq Economy. Set forth a plan to stabilize Iraq's cost for food and energy, on par to what
the prices were before the US invasion and occupation....
11.Economic Sovereignty. Work with the world community to restore Iraq's fiscal integrity...
12 .International Truth and Reconciliation....

A: The issue here, I believe, is instant background checks. Nobody who has a criminal background or is mentally ill should be able to get a weapon. That is the key, and that includes gun sales. That includes gun sales at gun shows. The key is going to be also attacking poverty, dealing with those kids in the ghettos that are heavy users of gun violence and that are victims of gun violence, to make sure that this country attacks the core problems of poverty.

Dear Web Staff;

I looked over your answers on Dodd and Richardson, and you have incorrect info on them and I'm going to assume on all the other candidates. The comprisons are in dire need of updating!! Please do it asap!!! Your reputation is in jeapardy!

Dodd IS in favor of a timetable for getting out of Iraq and and to say Richardson "Opposes gun restrictions" as this site does, is not quite correct. See: http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Bill_Richardson_Gun_Control.htm

and also:
http://chrisdodd.com/issues/foreign_affairs
"Chris Dodd understands that ending the war in Iraq makes America safer. He strongly supports the Feingold-Reid proposal – the only responsible measure in Congress that sets a timetable to end the war in Iraq by March 31, 2008 "

Thank You!!!