http://www.democrats.com/...
An overwhelming majority (73%) of Americans want U.S. troops home in a year, the poll found.
This is the first poll that asked voters to choose between President Bush's funding request of $200 billion and other funding options.
The single largest group - 40% - want Bush to bring U.S. troops home within 6 months using funds Congress has already given him for Iraq, which now totals $450 billion. That is the position advocated by Democratic Presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
Another 14% would give President Bush $50 billion more to bring our troops home within 6 months.
Another 19% would give President Bush $200 billion more - the amount he requested - but would require a deadline to bring U.S. troops safely home within a year.
Just one in eight Americans (13%) support the Republican position of giving Bush a $200 billion check without any deadline.
40%+14%+19%=73% want U.S. troops home in a year
So for a comment , why do so many people support Kucinich's ideas? But not his run for president? In the mainstream it is because people don't even recognize his name. But here at DKos people know him.
Dont we realize Bush is digging a hole as deep as he can to attempt to doom the next President to failure?
http://freepress.org/...
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"Clinton, Edwards, and Obama share responsibility for wasting hundreds of billions of dollars in an unnecessary war. And the American tax payers on this day need to remember that," Kucinich charged. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards voted to authorize the war. Clinton and Barack Obama continue to vote to fund it.
At a New Hampshire town meeting yesterday, someone asked Clinton about her vote to authorize the war, and asked if she had read the intelligence reports prior to her vote. Senator Clinton is reported to have said that if she had known then what she knows now, she never would have voted to give the President the authority to go to war.
"If Senator Clinton and the others had done their job they would have known, and they would have voted correctly as I did," declared Kucinich, who campaigned yesterday in New Hampshire and Connecticut and appeared live on CNN's night show from New York City.
"I didn't just vote against the war, I shared an in depth analysis with Members of Congress that I wrote in October 2002, after reviewing intelligence reports," Kucinich said.
Kucinich's 2002 Analysis: http://kucinich.us/...
"The information that Senator Clinton said she was lacking was available to anyone who wanted to see it," said Kucinich ...
2002 analysis:
http://www.dennis4president.com/...
Have you ever read the MLK quotes under the waterfall at Yerba Buena Gardens in SF?
The first:
Through our scientific genius, we have
made this world a neighborhood: now
through our moral and spiritual development
we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real
sense, we must learn to live together as
brothers, or we will perish together as
fools.
The second:
I have the audacity to believe that people
everywhere can have three meals a day
for their bodies, education and culture
for their minds, and dignity, equality, and
freedom for their spirits. I believe that what
self-centered men have torn down men
other-centered can build up.
They are all great ill copy them all someday. Kucinich sounds more and more like MLK. I wish Obama would "have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day".
Only Kucinich has a position paper on ending world hunger.
Only Kucinich, Gravel, Paul and Gore say Iraq is an oil war.
Gore talks about the Hydrocarbon Law in his new book on page 195:
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Later, during the invasion itself, even as looters were carrying off many of Iraq's priceless antiquities from the museums designed to commemorate the "cradle of civilization," only one government building was protected by American troops: the petroleum ministry. In 2007, even as Iraq was disintegrating into sectarian violence, the Bush administration was carefully crafting legal documents --while the United States was still the occupying power--guaranteeing preferential access to the enormous profits expected from production of Iraq's vast oil reserves for ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell.
Critics like Greg Muttitt of the human rights and environmental group Platform, which monitors the oil industry, described the proposed law as a terrible deal for the Iraqis and regional citizens, who were totally cut out of the process. "The draft went to the US government and major oil companies in July [2006]," Muttitt said in January 2007, "and to the International Monetary Fund in September. Last month I met a group of twenty Iraqi MPs in Jordan, and asked them how many has seen the legislation. Only one had."
Kucinich talks about the hydrocarbon law very very often.