[A-List] Stop The War - US Congress

[Jorge Figueiredo <jfgf.consult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stop The War

 By Dennis J. Kucinich

 US House of Representatives, April/2/03   Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich
(D-OH), who leads opposition to the War in Iraq within the House, today,
issued the following statement on the House floor:
  "Stop the war now. As Baghdad will be encircled, this is the time to get
the UN back in to inspect Baghdad and the rest of Iraq for biological and
chemical weapons. Our troops should not have to be the ones who will find
out, in combat, whether Iraq has such weapons. Why put our troops at
greater risk? We could get the United Nations inspectors back in.
  "Stop the war now. Before we send our troops into house-to-house combat
in Baghdad, a city of five million people. Before we ask our troops to take
up the burden of shooting innocent civilians in the fog of war.
  "Stop the war now. This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq was
not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al-Qaeda
may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attacks on
this country. Iraq did not tried to acquire nuclear weapons technology from
Niger. This war is built on falsehood.
  "Stop the war now. We are not defending America in Iraq. Iraq did not
attack this nation.  Iraq has no ability to attack this nation. Each
innocent civilian casualty represents a threat to America for years to come
and will end up making our nation less safe. The seventy-five billion
dollar supplemental needs to be challenged because each dime we spend on
this war makes America less safe. Only international cooperation will help
us meet the challenge of terrorism.  After 9/11 all Americans remember we
had the support and the sympathy of the world. Every nation was ready to be
of assistance to the United States in meeting the challenge of
terrorism.  And yet, with this war, we have squandered the sympathy of the
world. We have brought upon this nation the anger of the world. We need the
cooperation of the world, to find the terrorists before they come to our
shores.
  "Stop this war now. Seventy-five billion dollars more for war.
Three-quarters of a trillion dollars for tax cuts, but no money for
veterans' benefits. Money for war. No money for health care in America, but
money for war. No money for social security, but money for war. We have
money to blow up bridges over the Tigris and the Euphrates, but no money to
build bridges in our own cities. We have money to ruin the health of the
Iraqi children, but no money to repair the health of our own children and
our educational programs.
  "Stop this war now. It is wrong. It is illegal. It is unjust and it will
come to no good for this country.
  "Stop this war now. Show our wisdom and our humanity, to be able to stop
it, to bring back the United Nations into the process. Rescue this moment.
Rescue this nation from a war that is wrong, that is unjust, that is immoral.
  "Stop this war now



Kucinich: President Continues to Mislead The Country About the War   On
March 31, 2003, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), who leads opposition
in the House to the war in Iraq, issued the following statement: "Today,
President Bush said the following to Coast Guard personnel: Our victory
will remove a sponsor of terror, armed with weapons of terror. Our victory
will uphold the just demands of the United Nations and the civilized world.

 "This statement is another example of rhetoric that the Administration is
using to mislead the public in the war against Iraq. Iraq has not been
proven to have weapons of mass destruction, by either the United Nations or
the United States. Further, this statement falsely implies that the United
Nations and 'the civilized world' sanctioned war in Iraq. It also
incorrectly implies that the United Nations sanctioned regime change and
the removal of Saddam Hussein. "This Administration has consistently misled
the public on the cost of war, the cause for war, the facts of war, and the
support for war. It is time to end this war immediately and bring the
troops home."