A word from Dennis Kucinich

Dear Friends,

This week, Congress will have another great debate about Iraq.
Unfortunately, Congress is going to be discussing a nonbinding resolution
at a time when Congress ought to be taking a stand to cut off funds, to
implement a plan - my plan, the 12-point plan to get out of Iraq.

But instead, Congress engages in these meaningless resolutions. We need
the Congress to take a stand, but we also need presidential candidates to
take a stand. As you know, I led the effort in the House of
Representatives in 2002, in challenging the Bush Administration's march
towards war. As you remember, among all the presidential candidates today,
I not only voted against authorization, but I voted against each and every
effort to try to fund the war. The only way we stop the war is stop the
funding.

Yesterday, 60 Minutes had a show which credited Senator Obama with being
the only Democratic presidential candidate who opposed the war. The fact
is that Senator Obama wasn't in the Senate at the time, he didn't vote
against the war, and the fact is that, as a Member of the Senate, he's
voted eight times to fund the war.

Now, I can't say the media is always going to tell the truth. But it's
important for you to fund this campaign, so we can get our message out.
It's important for you to fund this campaign so I can challenge Senator
Clinton, who, in voting for the war and voting to fund the war, now says
that if she's elected President, she'll end the war immediately, and, if
she had been President at the time, we wouldn't have gone to war.

Now think about it. The role of Congress is superior to the President when
it comes to war-making power. The role of Congress is to give the President
permission to go to war. The Democratic Senate could have stopped the war.
Senator Clinton, Senator Edwards gave George Bush permission and, in
effect, made it possible for the war to occur.

It's good that, now, everybody thinks the war is a bad idea. But the real
question the American people are going to have to face is who had the
clarity, who had the vision, who had the judgment to make the call at that
time that the war was not supportable, that there was no evidence that
merited a war.

I stand before you, not only as the only candidate who can say that, but
as the one who is prepared to lead this nation forward in the cause of
peace, in the cause of a world where we use diplomacy to solve our
differences.

We're at the threshold of a war with Iran, right now. The same people who
were buying the drumbeat for war against Iraq are basically buying into
the necessity of challenging Iran aggressively.

We need a whole new approach, and I'm prepared to take it, with your help.
So go to the website right now. Please contribute if you haven't already
done so. And if you have, thank you, and help us more. Do everything you
can to contact your friends. America doesn't have to be in the position
it's in. We're going to lose our nation unless we stand up and assert that
war is not inevitable, that peace is inevitable if we stay with the truth
and if we insist that our public officials stand up for the American
people.

We have so many things that we need in our country today. Our children
need better education. American people need health care. We need to create
jobs. We need to work on focusing on cleaning up our environment. But our
entire domestic agenda is being shoved aside in favor of war mongering.
This has to stop. And you can help stop it.

Go to the website right now. Make your contribution. I'll stand in there
for you; I need you to stand there with me.

Thank you,
Dennis J Kucinich
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