Breakfast with Dennis Kucinich by Cindy Sheehan

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_cindy_sh_061207_breakfast_with_denni.htm

Little did I know, as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) and I were driving through the streets of a Cleveland, Ohio, another American city that looks like it is preparing for the onslaught of a very cold winter on that gray morning, that he would be presenting me with a clear, reasonable, and obvious plan for bringing American troops out what is rapidly becoming total anarchy in Iraq.

The previous evening, Dennis and I, both spoke at the US Labor Against the War conference in Cleveland. During his impassioned speech (not too many people know that Dennis is an inspired orator, and each time I hear him speak, I feel like searching for the nearest baptismal font or river to be baptized for something, anything), Dennis hinted at what would be just the thing to give our troops a one way ticket home from the quicksands of Iraq.

Dennis gets the fact that Nov. 7th was a peaceful overthrow of war-time politics as usual. He realizes that America did not turn out in flocks to vote for the Democrats, because the Democrats have no clear, and yes, even, very confused platforms and polices, but Americans voted for a new direction in this country, especially a direction that leads us out of Iraq. Dennis gets it, but I am not sure too many more of our elected officials understand this concept. We voted against BushCo and their penchant for torture, murder, pandemonium, and anti-democracy posturing all over the world.

As I sat eating a simple breakfast, in a very, not surprisingly modest home of one of the leading proponents of true peace that we have in our world today, and while the energetic and enthusiastic Congressman had a hard time standing, or sitting still, we had a meeting on a very exhilarating strategy and prospect that could have US troops out of Iraq by the end of June...


Kucinich urges mass march to end Iraq war

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10269/1/350

CLEVELAND —

...Speaking to hundreds of cheering delegates at the U.S. Labor Against the War conference here Dec. 2, the Cleveland congressman charged that President Bush and the Iraq Study Group seek to thwart the will of the American people as expressed in the Nov. 7 elections.

“2006 was about getting out of Iraq,” Kucinich said. “The opposition to this war is very deep. The American people created the political sea change to take back the House and Senate. But Bush has no intention to get out or change his policies and the Iraq Study Group is window dressing that is trying to buy time.”...

“But Congress is a coequal branch of government,” he said, “and Congress has the power to end the war.”

“This year we can change things,” Kucinich said, “but we need your help.” Congressman James McGovern’s bill to cut the war funding will be reintroduced, he said. “It will be springtime for the peace movement. We need to bring a million people to Washington on the eve of that vote. We must demand an end to war.”...