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"An Attempt to Deceive Americans Into Yet Another War"
Dennis Kucinich may not be a front runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But the congressman from Cleveland has succeeded in distinguishing himself from the other contenders when it comes to speaking those truths that are self-evident.
And in an era of mass delusion and denial on the party of leaders in both major political parties, stating the obvious can be a radical act.
Such is the case with Kucinich appropriate answer to the latest move by the Bush-Cheney administration to ramp up hostilities with Iran. That move -- the unprecedented attempt to label Iran's 125,000-strong Republican Guard as a "specially designated global terrorist" group -- is, as the congressman says "nothing more than an attempt to deceive Americans into yet another war -- this time with Iran."
No one who has paid even the slightest attention to the Bush-Cheney administration's approach to Middle East affairs can doubt that Kucinich is right. Yet, his is a lonely voice of clarity amid the din of Democratic obfuscation that aids and abets this White House's worst instincts.
"The belligerent Bush Administration is using this pending designation to convince the American public into accepting that a war with Iran is inevitable," argues Kucinich.
"This designation will set the stage for more chaos in the region because it undercuts all of our diplomatic efforts," he adds. Explaining that, "This new label provides further evidence for Iran's leaders that there is no point to engage in diplomatic talks with the United States if our actions point directly to regime change."
Delivering the response that should be coming from New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and especially from Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he isn't campaigning for president, Kucinich argued that, "Our nation is better served by demanding sensible and responsible diplomatic foreign policy initiatives from the Bush Administration."
Kucinich, who has proposed impeaching Vice President Cheney for continually prodding the country toward an unnecessary war with Iran, may not get the political credit he deserves for calling out this administration. But history will recognize him as the man who sounded the alarm when the Bush administration moved America closer to the brink of disaster. John Nichols' new book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it as a "nervy, acerbic, passionately argued history-cum-polemic [that] combines a rich examination of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the most vital tool handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most basic liberties.'"
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Show Alltry this: how about REJOICING that in this age of utter corporate domination of our political, economic and communications systems, we have a real live David standing up to Goliath. This is a no-brainer, my friends. Open minds, insert political will.
"Look. All of here know how special he is, and that he is head-and-shoulders (so to speak) above everyone else running. Yet almost nobody knows about him, even though this is his second time around. Ask yourselves why?"
Here's the reason: Corporate-owned media, which has been promoting Hillary Clinton, corporate-owned candidate.
Your thumbnail psychological summary of Kucinich is unfair. He rises above all of his limitations like no other person in Congress. This is the only Congressperson tall enough and pissed-off enough to demand that Cheney be impeached.
We currently have the dumbest of the dumb sitting in the White House, surrounded by traitors to our country, liars, thieves, conspirators, and (just possibly) terrorists.
I'll take a micro-manager over the above crap any day.
As these globalization nuts move on with their plans, maybe more people will see the truth behind what Kucinich has been saying all along. Kucinich has several months yet to build his case against these people. And they just keep pouring more evidence into his case for him. Problem though is getting the evidence to the people. I see some claim we are ignorant etc etc. I doubt that's the reason in most cases though. I believe its because most people are working so much, and or, involved in family activities. Not to mention that those 40 million living in poverty have no or little access to the internet, and don't vote. Which is about the only way we have to find the truth behind politics today. I don't think Keith Oberman has a high enough rating that would indicate those people are getting their news from him. All of the above would be good reason for forced voting. But I highly doubt our corrupt government is going to help solve that problem for us. Forced voting would most likely turn DC upside down. Mixed with uninformed people voting and those who actually follow politics, I can only imagine the nightmares it would bring for our corrupt senate and congress. We can only hope that Kucinich is saving his money for the last couple of months of the race to let loose!!! Using all the building evidence and continuing truth to reach those that don't or can't follow politics, for what ever reason. As far as those who just simply seem to follow as sheep, or have bought into the fear factor? etc etc. I fear its to late for these people. Its been near 7 years of just this administration, and if they are seeing enough news to reach this point, then they simply refuse to evaluate that in which they are told/shown with any reasonable intelligence. Making it impossible to reach a solid developed opinion. With the polls favoring the present globalization nuts at just under 30%, we may have enough people that actually see the light though. Unfortunately, we aren't all on the same path. People like Clinton will follow the same path her husband was on. As will all other candidates around her. Gore, ha! Look people, where did he come from? He's just another player of politics. He allowed an election to be stolen from him. And didn't say a word about it until what, 5 years later when he found global warming to use to put himself back into the spot light. Do you really think he gives a dam about you!? For if he did he wouldn't have claimed he had the best intensions of the country by not fighting for his right to be president when he actually won it. And you can throw Kerry under the same category with his lame excuses. As an Ohioan myself, Kerry not only let down our country by not fighting for office, but he also let Ohioans down by allowing our corrupt election officials get away with yet another corrupt election as in Florida. IN which as he took office should have been among the first matters he dealt with. But instead, we will still be dealing with corrupt voting machines and corrupt election officials. I'm sorry to bring up what no one seems to be talking about anymore. But its going to be another factor in getting any worthy opponent into office!!! I also seen a comment on green party above. :-) oh please! Give it a break already. You people are one of the biggest reasons we are where we are today. As real caring people such as Kucinich are a declining breed in government. Your continued interference in the election cycle will do nothing more then continue the decline of those who care until government has been totally over ran by globalist. Its bad enough we will have a hard time getting someone like Kucinich into office. A 3rd party candidate doesn't have a chance in hell to get elected. And not until you get someone like Kucinich into office, will your green party people have a chance. Because it will take someone like Kucinich to fight for something other then a 2 party system. Which is now really a 1 party system. 99% of the congress and senate all eat from the same hand and drink from the same bowl. Until that changes, there is no green party or any other party. They are just groups with different opinions. Very small groups at that, which our government brush off like lint on their expensive suits. You have 2 independents, or I should say 1. Sanders and Lieberman. The later being nothing more then a republican globalist himself. I'd like to see Berney run myself, but he's probably afraid of being assassinated. Which I seen above in one post above towards Kucinich. Which probably is a good likeability. To bad we can't ask Kennedy why he was taken out!
For those interested in a psychological analysis of warmongering, I have recently completed a 10-minute online video entitled "Resisting the Drums of War." It examines how the Bush administration has promoted the misguided and destructive war in Iraq by targeting five core concerns that often govern our lives--concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. Looking ahead, the continuing occupation of Iraq--or an attack on Iran--will likely be sold to us in much the same way. The video examines these warmongering appeals and how to counter them. It's available for viewing HERE.
I've come to the conclusion the vast majority of the American public are imbeciles. I frequent many sites and just today came across a Black woman who is rabidly in favor of Ron Paul...Talk about not doing your homework on a candidate. I guess his calling 95% of Black males in DC criminals doesn't phase her. Or his wish to dismantle all social programs and the entire Federal Government for that matter. People just watch sound bites and go from there, it's sad really...
It's going to take a colossal effort by We the People to get Kucinich in the White Office.
I don't know how it can be done. It just seems that the majority of progressives don't understand that the top Democratic candidates are more to the right than to the left.
I'd really like to see Kucinich in office, however.
How does the Bush administration think it can wage war against Iran now? What's Bush going to do? Declare victory and pull the troops out of Iraq to invade Iran? Iran's much larger and much more militarily organized than Iraq ever was. An attack on Iran would be a fool's move.
I doubt if a draft would get very far if it's intended only to provide more fodder for the death of Americans in another illegal war, this time in Iran. America is demanding that Bush's war-mongering stop altogether, not continue with another invasion, which will surely be botched as well with the cost in American and Iranian lives.
Pelosi needs to be horsewhipped for taking impeachment off the table. That was one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen against criminals, bullies and liars.
Kucinich's voice needs to get louder in the media, and Nichols needs to be taken more seriously by the MSM. His interview on the Bill Moyers Journal, along with Bruce Fein, was great. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html
If any of you believe the U. S. will not attack Iran, I suggest reading the following links:
Empire Burlesque:
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/: Scroll down to "The Worsening Nightmare".
These two writers articulate very clearly what is likely to happen -- all fully supported with facts and details, in context of developments extending over a period of time, every one of which has been aided and abetted by the Democrats in Washington (Kucinich excepted).
Follow where links go. It is a lengthy read past the first posts. If you don't think they make strong cases, I want to know the reason why.
One reason why I read John Nichols first, everytime. Thanks for your work.
Word to the wise if you know that Kucinich is the one who is speaking for you, stop making references to those tools, i.e. negative use of polls and media to brainwash the public into voting against itself. Focus instead on the strength of the words of truth and resistance Kucinich is using to confront the bully to stop the right wing's negative, annilistic, and selfdefeating policies. Kucinich does not stand alone, to be sure; Join him in shifting focus to become a part of the winning antidote to what ails this nation.
Go Dennis GO!
Pelosi should be impeached for not abiding by her oath of office to Uphold the Constitution!
To attack Iran, rest assurred that Cheney will use the air force and they will (try to) use nuclear weapons..for a ground force they will use mercenaries from the likes of Blackwater and CACI....
ya gotta wonder why we're not hearing more from Hiliary, Obama and Edwards, eh?
Hey, you don't have to convince me. The Democrats will mouth some words and look the other way, greedily rubbing their hands together like flies on a rotting pig carcass dreaming about the 2008 elections. The Republicans think it'll make Jesus come. AIPAC bastards like Lieberman and the rest of the neocons think they're doing Israel a favor. The collaborative media suppresses facts exposing the relative importance of Saudi Arabia as the prime foreign instigator of Iraqi violence, and pumps the propaganda about elevating the Iranian military to terrorist status. To Bush the violence already wrought is but a comma in the book of history. As a fugitive, bin Laden is Bush's best friend. In other words, all systems are go.
The question is: what are we going to do about it? Vote Kucinich. Vote Sheehan. Recall Pelosi and Reid and any other Democrat who dares mouth the words "we need sixty-seven votes" again. It's time to drive these cowardly bastards into the sea of political death.
Will it happen? Sadly, I don't think so.
DRAFT THE RICH.
This time, Israel might lead the charge, but the US certainly will be complicit as a supporter. And don't expect the Democrats and Republicans to stop it. The 97-0 vote proves that fact.
Just like the Iraq war, we can't believe they'd do it, until they do.
While here at home we won't be able to afford food, housing or insurance, they'll be waging another war which will drain our resources and leave us unable to stop them. Face it, we're the USSR, for those of you old enough to remember. Call us the USSA.
In Russia, I remember hearing how fat, rich men were feared and seen as evil, because they were fat. No one else was fat, and there wasn't any food. Everyone knew what they were eating, and it wasn't beef or pork, it was human flesh. That horrible tale is only one example of what we're to believe could NEVER happen. But it did happen, there, and if we're not careful, it could happen again. Here. If we go to war with Iran, I don't see how it won't be the end of the USA. Maybe we won't be eating each other, but chances are, we're going to go hungry. So they can have another war.
And when the rest of the world sees soft, fat America going hungry, do you really think they're going to feel sorry for us? Think anyone is going to feel badly for us when we lose our "freedoms" and find out we aren't as brave as we thought we were?
Seems to me the war on Iran would be just as much a war on the US. I don't see any way around it. We cannot afford another war, justified or not, ethical or not, win-able or not. We'll starve.
Our only chance to get Dennis in the White House to stop the insanity is if Gore jumps in the race and wins, picks Dennis as his running mate, wins the election, and then Gore keels over from just one too many artery-clogging greasy hamburgers.
Hey, it could happen.
TGFK (Thank goodness for Kucinich) and thank goodness for John Nichols - I wish we had more of the same ilk. Even the best of the liberal journalists fail to give Dennis Kucinich due respect and support. Why?
There's time left for Dennis to surge ahead, there's time for Al Gore to jump in too. Either or both could be our saving grace.
Rather than throw my vote away, I will cast it for Kucinich. I hope others will do likewise. Consider it a tiny step in a better direction.
I say this with a weary resignation, because I feel that the vote at this point is a disconnected action. What we need to do, what we need to learn to do, is find a way to vote every day, by way of our purchases, our reading, our viewing, our thoughts and behavior and diet, and so on.
We have to imagine something better than this insane dream of fear and attack.
I think this praying for someone to show up and save us is part of the problem. As Americans we are taught from birth some hero will come and save the day just in time. Unfortunately, life just doesn't work that way, sometimes you have to save your damn self...
The liberal MSM doesn't like Kucinich because he's short and has an elfish look and is a real person. Romney will probably be the next prez cause he's got good hair and good looks. Doesn't matter that he won't be a good prez, he's got good hair.
When did the MSM become liberal? I must have missed that day. Another one drinking the Faux news Koolaid
On the question of "how the hell does the Bush administration think it can wage a war in Iran?" All we need to do is look at how they waged war in Iraq. In "No End in Sight," the filmmaker makes clear the utter and total lack of preparation of the Bush admin for reorganizing Iraq after the invasion. I have come to a conclusion that this was not based on mere incompetence, but rather on their deliberate intention to sow disorder and chaos and cause a genocide of the Iraqi people (especially men between the ages of 20 and 40) so that Iraq will never, ever again be a functioning nation, but rather a big piece of oil-laden real estate open for the taking. Why else would they not allow Iraqis to participate in reconstruction? Why else would they have disbanded the Iraqi army that was initially ready to work with the Americans? So, along those lines, why the hell won't they try to do the same thing in Iran? It's easy to go to war when your intention is simply to destroy human life and social institutions without having to worry about rebuilding them afterwards. We know all the Bushies have ever wanted was a pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Iran and Iraq. It's the same old sad story: follow the oil, follow the money. Drop a few bombs, kill a few million inhabitants, and let the oil flow.
About time John Nichols started supporting Kucinich. Things must be really bad out there in Wonderland. Last election, he was dumping on Kucinich, saying we need to support a "winner".
Stop looking at "winners". They are losers. We need to support candidates who will do the right thing without thinking of themselves first. That's Dennis.
As Randy Newman said:
"Short people got/ no reason/ to live."
As far as I can tell, Dennis Kucinich is presented ruthlessly as a marginal candidate despite the fact that his ideas align best with the progressive slant of the general public because:
1. He is short and reminds people of Dukakis.
2. The media and other candidates treat him as marginal, based on his fundraising, his brutal honesty, and the potential threat a la Howard Dean that he poses to large media and other big business interests.
But, you would think Democracts would have learned from the Howard Dean thing in 2004. In it, the media was allowed to alter perceptions of Dean, and the primary voters went for the stiff fish Kerry.
Here we go again, Democrats ignoring the only progressive candidate.
The bottom line here, folks, is that the Democratic Party is not for progressives. You have to go Green, or look elsewhere. The other option is to work to put Gravel's national initiative for democracy forward so we do not have to rely on Congress or the President to move the country in the right direction.
they dont need troops. they will nuke iran. please, someone stop them. i'm for dennis. i was liking richardson, but, dennis has my vote in the last couple weeks, he's saying all the right things, and not because he wants the power - he's right!! go dennis.
Americans want to vote for other political parties for real change in their nation. Or so they say? How about this:
Kucinich/Paul '08 Whoever of these two men is President or Vice-President is irrelevent - they go well together and would do a great job I am sure. If Americans want change this would be THE ticket!
The USA should declare themselves neutral, like Switzerland and Sweden have. I believe Ron Paul has a somewhat modified view of this opinion and would complement Kucinich's opinion that if the USA is ever involved in foreign affairs this should be for humanitarian and not economic reasons. I believe that both stand for economic independence and stress diplomacy vis a vis war to settle disputes.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul should run on an independent ticket!
Who are the Socialist candidates running for President of the United States in '08? Just curious...
What is it with these Paul supporters? Do you not get he wants to dismantle the entire Federal Government and put all the power in the states hands? Do you have any idea what a disaster that would be? In other words, interracial relationships and homosexuality would be outlawed in the red states as well as abortion which he is vehemently AGAINST. He's also a racist prick, but that never seemed to bother Americans before, I don't know why I think it would matter now. Paul is a Libretarian in GOP garb, he also wants to do away with any and all social programs. Any progressive that would vote for this fool is well...a fool themselves.
Any war with Iran will be an air and naval war. There will be no attempt to invade and occupy territory.
Maybe, just maybe, they'd put troops ashore to hold the Iranian side of the Strait of Hormuz... but it would be difficult to keep them there for very long.
In 1988, the U.S. sank half of the Iranian navy during the "Tanker War" at the end of the Iraq-Iran war. They've been working toward gaining nuclear weapons since that time. Nothing else will serve as a deterrent to our aircraft carriers.
So, the purpose of an attack on Iran will be to delay their nuclear program, and to destroy any other weapons and installations that can threaten oil tankers in the Gulf.
The NeoCons may still be deluding themselves that a "crisis" would lead to the popular overthrow of the Iranian regime, but the real benefit of starting a war with Iran is that it would make it extremely difficult for a Democratic President to withdraw our troops from Iraq.
Permanent bases in Iraq (even a restless and divide Iraq) are the prize.
The reason why Kucinich wont win, is because people keep thinking he can't win. So they don't vote for him. If he cant get in this time he will have a much better chance next time, if millions of people actually show support instead of chalking it up as a wasted vote. He is the only person that could make the country the place it should be and never has been.
I saw a Ron Paul speech on CSPAN last week. My impression was that he believes the over-arching problem with America today is that there is too much regulation on business. He clearly doesn't get it at all. I do applaud him for wanting to take a more non-interventionist foreign policy stance. My prediction is that he will end up running Libertarian or Independent and function as H Ross Perot did in '92, to assure a Democratic presidential victory. If Kucinich were somehow elected president, I fear he would be assassinated.
I don't understand why you're all so concerned about who to vote for in 08.
THERE ISN'T GOING TO BE ANY ELECTION IN 08!
yes broken robot, he's an unabashed capitalist and is all for big business which is why it baffles me so that so called progressives would vote for him
"If Kucinich were somehow elected president, I fear he would be assassinated."
If GW Bush can avoid it, certainly Dennis Kucinich could, unless you're saying that progressives don't get fed up to the point of assassination but conservatives do.
broken robot, I fear you are right. This country has a history of assassinating people who threaten corporate power.
kristina, I'm not sure who these people are who pop up with the idea of a Kucinich/Paul candidacy. Maybe they think Kucinich will get assassinated and leave Paul in charge. I can't see voting for some one who wants to dismantle our social programs, but the Paul supporters don't seem to have a problem with that. Must be a bunch of Libertarians lurking around here. My confusion about them is that Kucinich and Paul are on opposite sides of the social program spectrum, although on the same page regarding the occupation,NAFTA and corporate power. But that's all they have in common. Not enough.
We should be looking at what the European countries are doing. Long restful vacations, subsidized day care, free education through college, paid maternity leave. Our children deserve this. We're overworked, overstressed, we're killing ourselves and ruining our children's futures. Our country can do better than this and Dennis would lead the way. Ron Paul wouldn't. We aren't the richest country in the world, we just have some of the richest people in the world living in it.
"If GW Bush can avoid it, certainly Dennis Kucinich could, unless you're saying that progressives don't get fed up to the point of assassination but conservatives do."
Uhm, yeah that could be it. I mean who are the ones with guns in every closet? I've already heard some of my customers (red state rednecks) salivating over Clinton or Obama getting in office so they'll be assassinated. This is the kind of mentality you are dealing with...
Kathy, you are so right. We are like rats in a wheel, running ourselves to death in the endless attempt to grap that ever elusive piece of cheese. My husband works two jobs, I work one and am currently hunting for another and we still struggle to make ends meet at the end of the month.
I get no paid vacation nor holidays and neither does he. Thankfully he's Union so he has health insurance and now that we are married I will be on his policy but with the Unions being so weak (especially here in Florida, a right to work state) there's of course no guarantee he won't get laid off. Somewhere along the line a good idea got lost in this Country. I don't think the founding fathers envisioned us all working like slaves to go deeper and deeper into debt to the corporate machine...
"If GW Bush can avoid it, certainly Dennis Kucinich could, unless you're saying that progressives don't get fed up to the point of assassination but conservatives do".
I think the chances of a lone nut from either the right or the left assassinating the president is essentially nil. It would take a conspiracy and would be sanctioned by the financial-military-industrial elites. It will not happen in the case of George Bush because he is their handmaiden.
Just(ly) switch to Kucinich! And VOTE (when/wherever he's on the ballot).
Support the most honest progressive candidate --as kathyodat says -- and not who the corporate news media manipulatively pre-annoint as 'winners.' This goes w/o saying.
Even if Kucinich made a decent vote showing at the virtually-air-tight-rigged Demo convention, it could help create & focus a new progressive force within the otherwise useless Demo party.
Other than that, building a progressive 3rd party is the only remaining hope for the longer-term (if US Constitution survives for a longer-term...)
RE attack on Iran: If it happens, US neocons will surely use proxy Israeli force for the job; not a single US troop or aircraft will be involved -- so as to blunt political fallout against the US from its own citizens and from other nations. Israel's government/economy, being more-effectively insulated against protest from its own citizens and the world, has a military that was built to serve at the end of USA's leash in such matters.
Iran's potential to gain nuke weapons is what US/Israeli neocons want to eliminate from the equation now - something easily achievable via multiple-site strikes by Israel's air force (which now possesses US cruise missles, to boot.)
You'd think Europe/China would finally call down the unholy USA/Israel military arrangement in the wake of any such strike. But don't count on that happening in any meaningful way, either.
RE: WHO TO VOTE FOR AFTER KUCINICH WITHDRAWS
I'll vote for Kucinich in the primaries.
But - as someone noted on another thread - short of the nomination, he will withdraw.
So who to vote for then? A Sheehan protest vote? Better to start working this out now than later - it would be a strong statement if progressives could get behind one alternative candidate, the way so many did in 2000.
What's the point or the objective of a US attack on Iran? There's no way their nuclear facilities can be destroyed, if US intelligence even knows where they are -- they're buried too deep for bunkerbusters or conventional weapons. Nuclear weapons can't be used against Iran because the fallout would cause millions of deaths in countries considered to be American allies.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/nuclear-bunker-buster-rnep-animation.html
So what practical goal would be achieved by an attack on Iran?
Hey, Ferency--any relation to Zolton and Mark? ELHS '69
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I'm through dithering about choosing between Hillary, Obama, and Edwards--come primary time, I'm votin' for Dennis! A big enough bloc of delegates at least gives us a plank in the platform...
Wilhelm:
Thanks so much for the headsup and link to the Moyers interview. I sometimes skip watching his fine program because some nights I just can't take it. It's always so thought provoking and maddening and rage inducing.
Anyway, thanks again.
Kucinich is the obvious true progressive, unfortunatley, when I mention him to friends and family, I get blank stares. But I try to enlighten when I can. Seems too many have already annointed Hillary and/or Barack from the DEM side, c'mon Gore jump in with Dennis the K. The GOP candidates are just cuts from the same tired worn out 911 cloth. What's sad, is that GWB and the rest of "neo con men" are still beating that worn out war drum to attack Iran a large % of the population will not buy it anymore. Fool them once, twice, thrice, but finally, they caught on amd not buying that snake oil anymore. Too many false warnings of TERRORIST attacks looming, W cried wolf too many times, the well is dry and the US public won't let him fill it with more blood in yet a third ME country. What people are really afraid of...lost jobs, health insurance, never ending bloodletting in Middle East. We've had enough, but the masses are too guillable and will probably vote for a "name brand" already selected by the powers that be, aka large corporations. Don't give up, stickers for Kuchinich on my car and if DEM primaries pick another GOP in disquise, I'll re-register to IND/Green in time for Fall 08. DEMs will try yet again to screw it up and may lose bid for White House.
"The point is that your insider buddy, Kucinich , is well placed to stand up against the AIPAC girl Pelosi and demand an immediate impeachment of the two criminals right away and rught now. But he does'nt."
Kucinich has put forward a bill (HR333 I believe?) calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. What more do you expect him to do? Last I heard, only 10 or so members have signed on to that bill. A new party needs to be built from the grassroots that represents the interests of sane people and a sustainable future. That may take a decade or more just to get off the ground. In the mean time we are doomed to ride this shitwagon all the way down.
Too bad my congressman, Maurice Hinchey isn't running. Like Kucinich, he opposed going into Iraq from day one. He also worked with Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana.
RE: TAKE THE INVASION THREAT SERIOUSLY, BUT...
With this berserk, criminal administration and its right wing followers, nothing should be considered 'off the table.'
And, therefore, humans concerned with survival and not bequeathing a totally f'd up earth to those who follow should be very, very concerned - and as active as possible in saying 'no' to crazy America.
But...bottom line - I have the FEELING that - short of yet another, yet more destructive invasion - the purpose of the bellicose Iran talk is partly to keep the core CheneyBush shock troops fired up, partly to keep up the pretense to a greater electorate that some kind of middle east centered 'war on terror' is actually going on - and, finally, partly distractor from the Iraq invasion - a mega f'up on every level you could name, that we will be living with and paying for, for a long, long time...
Dennis will get fewer and fewer mentions on the media because he does speak the truth so we will be back to Hillary who never commits, Barrack who wants to nuke Afghanistan(as if he know middle east politics any better than Bush), and Rommney who just may be able to buy his way to the Presidential seat. Bushies keep Americans on the edge constantly with rumors of yet another war so that our problems like the collapse of our infrastructure, loss of jobs, foreclosures, debt, and lack of social programs can go abegging.
I think this piece saved my sanity today. I agree with so many of you. I was ready to give up on Americans completely this morning when a friend e-mailed me that Kucinich won't win and she now loves Hillary again (this is after we had a long talk where I pointed out all the votes Hillary had made and all her actions that supported bush and his gang -- which she had NO IDEA about, yet she was all gung-ho for Hillary!) But she decided Kucinich can't win so she decided to love Hillary again. These people deserve what they get --- BUT THE REST OF US DON'T!
Thanks, John Nichols, for not writing a piece like so many many others which falsely claim that none of the dem candidates were saying anything against this administration's policies. Thank you for pointing out that DENNIS KUCINICH IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN CONSISTENT IN HIS COMMENTS TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LIES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.
The corporate media and the ignnoramuses in this country be damned, Dennis Kucinich WILL be known as the wise and brave man who tried to stop this horror....if only the sheeple listened.....
to label Iran's 125,000-strong Republican Guard as a "specially designated global terrorist" group
My prediction: Another false flag attack, such as blowing up a major bridge, will automatically be associated with the designated group.
-BeingSpied24/7
I agree, Joecommon. These people will orchestrate another false flag attack to try and rally the people again. They will blame it on Iran. It worked so well when they pulled off 911. The question is how many attacks can these people pull off before the American people 'get it'? Or will it then be too late?