[Peace-discuss] Why Kucinich Will Beat Bush (fwd)

[patton paul]

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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:49:41 -0600
From: Margaret J. Bell <elect-kucinich at sbcglobal.net>
To: Undisclosed Recipient <elect-kucinich at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Why Kucinich Will Beat Bush

Please forward this information quickly, especially to anyone you know in
Iowa or New Hampshire.

Presidential candidate, Dennis J. Kucinich, congressman from Ohio, believes
that the reason the Democrats lost the Congress to the Republicans in 2002
is because the Democratic leadership in the Congress failed to oppose the
War in Iraq, which blurred the distinction between the Democrats and the
Republicans.

Well, Dennis Kucinich knows the difference.  The Republicans are for big
business and the Democrats are for the little guy.

Dennis Kucinich believes that the only way that the Democrats can take back
the Presidency and the Congress in 2004 is to oppose the U.S. occupation of
Iraq.  It was wrong to go in and it is wrong to stay.

Dennis Kucinich is the only Democratic Presidential Candidate who voted
against giving Bush the blank check to go to war in Iraq.  Kucinich believes
it is wrong to stay in Iraq and has a 10 point plan to get the U.N. in and
the U.S. out.

The following is from the Kucinich for President web site, www.kucinich.us.

As president, Kucinich will work tirelessly to take
America in a new direction, to gain approval of the following plan at the
United Nations, to put this plan into action, and to bring all U.S. troops
home within 90 days of implementing this plan.


Ten-Point Plan to Bring Our Troops Home From Iraq

The following is the only detailed plan from any candidate for President
that will quickly bring all US troops home from Iraq.

  1.. The United States must ask the United Nations to manage the oil assets
of Iraq until the Iraqi people are self-governing.
  2.. The United Nations must handle all the contracts: No more Halliburton
sweetheart deals, No contracts to Bush Administration insiders, No contracts
to campaign contributors. All contracts must be awarded under transparent
conditions.
  3.. The United States must renounce any plans to privatize Iraq. It is
illegal under both the Geneva and the Hague Conventions for any nation to
invade another nation, seize its assets, and sell those assets. The Iraqi
people, and the Iraqi people alone must have the right to determine the
future of their country's resources.
  4.. The United States must ask the United Nations to handle the transition
to Iraqi self-governance. The UN must be asked to help the Iraqi people
develop a Constitution. The UN must assist in developing free and fair
elections.
  5.. The United States must agree to pay for what we blew up.
  6.. The United States must pay reparations to the families of innocent
Iraqi civilian noncombatants killed and injured in the conflict.
  7.. The United States must contribute financially to the UN peacekeeping
mission.
  8.. The United Nations, through its member nations, will commit 130,000
peacekeepers to Iraq on a temporary basis until the Iraqi people can
maintain their own security.
  9.. UN troops will rotate into Iraq, and all US troops will come home.
  10.. The United States will abandon policies of "preemption" and
unilateralism and commit to strengthening the UN.
Again, please forward the above Kucinich plan for Iraq, to get the U.N. in
and the U.S. out and win back the White House and the Congress in the 2004
election.

We can leave Iraq under these terms now, or five, ten, or fifteen years from
now.

Only after this plan is implemented, will there be an end of fear and a
beginning of hope in this country.

Support Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich for President -- Democrat from Ohio.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Margaret J. Bell
elect-kucinich at sbcglobal.net
www.kucinich.us