[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:11461] FW: Candidate calls for end to occupation

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Kucinich: Bring Troops Home
>The presidential candidate also spoke about education and renewable energy.
>By Lynn Okamoto
>The Des Moines Register
>
>   Monday 20 July 2003
>
>   Ottumwa, Ia. - It's time to bring American troops home from Iraq, Democratic
>presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Sunday at a nationally televised
>forum in Ottumwa.
>
>   "This is the time for us to rejoin the world community, rejoin the United
>Nations and get our troops out of there," said Kucinich, an Ohio 
>congressman, at
>a forum hosted by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and televised by 
>C-SPAN. "I don't
>like the fact that our men and women are being used for targets."
>
>   Kucinich's comments came as yet another U.S. solider was killed early Sunday
>south of Baghdad. According to the Associated Press, 163 U.S. 
>soldiers have now
>died in Iraq, including 48 killed since President Bush declared major combat
>over on May 1.
>
>   Springdale resident Clara Oleson, one of about 200 who attended Sunday's
>90-minute forum, grew frustrated after an hour had passed and no one 
>had talked
>about the war. The discussion focused instead on the economy, health care,
>education and renewable energy.
>
>   "George W. Bush is ready to blow up this world in our name and we're sitting
>here asking about prescription drugs," Oleson said. "The vast 
>majority of people
>watching this are never going to vote for you or anyone else because the
>disbelief and the disenchantment is that great."
>
>   Kucinich said he understands the anger in this country. He led an effort in
>the U.S. House of Representatives that challenged the Bush 
>administration's move
>toward war with Iraq, and "I continue to challenge this administration on a
>daily basis on why we're there and on the tremendous effect this is having on
>our nation and our families."
>
>   Kucinich's call for the return of U.S. troops stands in contrast to former
>Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, another opponent of the war who has said the United
>States can't withdraw from Iraq now, because that could lead to chaos.
>
>   Dean said he would replace reserves with Muslim troops from places such as
>Egypt, Morocco and Malaysia.
>
>   Nine candidates are vying for the 2004 Democratic nomination for president;
>five opposed the war. The other four, Joseph Lieberman, John Kerry, Dick
>Gephardt and John Edwards, voted in favor of a resolution last fall 
>that granted
>Bush authority to attack Iraq.
>
>   Aside from the war, Kucinich called Sunday for "deep, fundamental 
>change" and
>echoed themes from his standard stump speech.
>
>   "If people elect me president, there will be real changes," he said.
>
>   He called for cutting the Pentagon's budget by $60 billion to pay for
>universal pre-kindergarten and canceling President Bush's $1.5 trillion in tax
>cuts in favor of universal college education. Kucinich said universal health
>care can be achieved with a system administered by the federal government.
>
>   Kucinich also said Sunday that the United States should have 20 
>percent of its
>energy produced from renewable sources by 2010.
>
>   Kucinich is in the bottom tier of candidates in terms of fund-raising and
>national polls. However, some Democratic activists have referred to him as an
>"up-and-comer" in Iowa, home to the first-in-the nation presidential caucuses
>Jan. 19.


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Al Kagan
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