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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Kucinich: ‘Another $106 billion and all we get is a lousy war’


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One week after declaring that the United States “cannot afford” the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq “financially or spiritually,” Ohio’s Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a staunch anti-war crusader, took aim at Congress for not taking a more active role in any of the war on terror fronts.

“We are destroying our nation’s moral and fiscal integrity with this war supplemental,” Kucinich argued on the House floor Tuesday. “Instead of ending wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan now by appropriating only enough money to bring our troops home, Congress abdicates its constitutional authority, defers to the president, and asks for a report. That’s right, all we are asking for is a report on when the president will end the war.”

Kucinich continued, “There is also money for the IMF, presumably to bail out private European banks. Billions for the IMF so they can force low and middle income nations to cut jobs, wages, health care and retirement security, just like corporate America does to our constituents. And there’s money to incentivize the purchase of more cars, not necessarily from U.S. manufacturers because a ‘Buy America’ mandate was not allowed.”

“Another $106 billion dollars and all we get is a lousy war,” Kucinich said. “Pretty soon that is going to be about the only thing made in America – war.”

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  1. “Congress abdicates its constitutional authority, defers to the president, and asks for a report.”

    “Pretty soon that is going to be about the only thing made in America – war.”

    Kucinich is right on.

    Congress fails to protect its constitutional authority by not prosecuting Bush, Cheney and their torture loving staffers, and will even more frequently defer to the new President, just because he is a Democrat. Just wonderful. After suffering through eight years of Bush we had an election.

    Why did we bother?

    SIGN THE PETITION
    To Prosecute Those that Tortured In Our Name

    http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

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