[Peace-discuss] House Afghanistan Debate: What Kucinich Accomplished

[Robert Naiman]

[Rounds up press coverage of dissent on the war from LAT, NYT, NPR;
includes video from Edwards, Grayson, Paul, Pingree, Kucinich.]

Yesterday, at long last, there was a vigorous debate about the war in
Afghanistan on the floor of the United States House of
Representatives. The legislative vehicle was a resolution introduced
by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich calling for U.S. troops to be
withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year. But House critics
of the war have long been agitating for a real debate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/house-afghanistan-debate_b_495132.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/11/12386/9262

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/508

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Robert Naiman
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Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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