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Kucinich on Budget: I Will not Vote for the Expansion of War
WASHINGTON - April 29 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after voting against H.Con.Res 13, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 2010:
"I am committed to doing everything I can to put our community and our nation on the path to economic stability. I led opposition to the bank bailout program TARP, I worked vigorously in favor of the stimulus package, and I have worked to save the automotive, steel and aerospace industries in America.
"I will not vote for a budget that ties military spending to the operational funding of our government. This year, the budget includes $130 billion for war funding. We are ramping up the war in Afghanistan, and have yet to find an end to the war in Iraq. Recent media reports indicate that we may double our troop levels in Afghanistan by 2010. This budget helps to authorize that expansion, and I will not endorse a budget that sends more of our brave men and women to a war without an end in sight."
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Show AllIn a sane world, this man would be our president.
I keep hearing that we have a do nothing congress in Washington. However Congressman Dennis Kucinich is a hard working man. I agree with him. Neither of the wars, Afghanistan or Iraq can be won by military means. We desperately need better diplomats and reconstruction plans to help the innocent people of these countries. Americans ridicule Dennis, but he is one of the best American Congresspersons in our government. Most of us know that the surge in Iraq was not a victory because it resulted in an ethnic cleansing of over a million people and a wall separates hostile religious groups plus America paid one of the religious groups to fight the enemy instead of U.S.
soldiers. In Bosnia ethnic cleansing was an excuse to go to war, in Iraq it was used as an excuse to curtail a war.
Kucinich was my first choice for President but I ended voting for Nader because I knew Obama had no power over the corporate war machine. The profits continue.....