I can't find a link to this Kucinich statement about the war and its cost

But I can reproduce it here so that at least three more people besides C-SPAN junkies and his mother will know what he said.



Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), who has led opposition within theCongress to the war from the beginning, issued the following statement onthe war Supplemental funding bill on the House floor Monday evening:

"Mass death on the installment plan. That's what this supplemental voteto keep our troops in Iraq is all about.

"Today Iraqi civilian casualties number well over 100,000. Iraqi civilianinjuries could be over one million, but who is keeping track? Some act asthough the Iraqis are not real people, with real families, real hopes andreal dreams and loves of their own.

"We have lost nearly 2,500 of our own brave soldiers. Up to 48,000 troopshave suffered physical or emotional injuries that could scar them and theirloved ones for life.

"Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Steiglitz says the war could cost $2trillion dollars. Two trillion dollars for war while the American peopleare told we don't have enough money for job creation, education, healthcare and social security.

"The Administration went into Iraq without an exit strategy not becausethey are incompetent, but because they have no intention of leaving.

"We are spending hundreds of millions building permanent bases in Iraq. The Administration recently announced deployment of no less than 50,000troops in Iraq far into the future. We are looking at the permanentoccupation of Iraq.

"And so the long cadence of lies has led to Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo andHaditha, soon to be replaced by more lies and more tragedies.

"What can you say when you are watching your nation descend, sleepwalking, into something like the lower circles of hell in Dante's Inferno?

"You can say stop it ! You can say enough blood is enough blood !

"You can stop it ! Bring our troops home !

"You can say no to any more funds for this war ! And then we can begin aperiod of truth and reconciliation about 9/11 and Iraq. Begin the healingof the soul of America. The Bible says, 'He who troubleth his own house shall inherent the wind.'Our house has been troubled by this war based on lies. What will our inheritance be?"