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Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich Hopes To Win Support For Having Been Right About Iraq

http://www.freetimes.com/story/4577

KUCINICH - "I was right about this." Q: The Toledo Blade has called you a "diminutive Cleveland congressman" with a "giant-sized ego." How do you respond?

A: I'm not going to dignify this with a comment. You know, there's a war going on. People are losing their lives. And what are they doing? I would ask the Toledo Blade to join me in challenging this unjust war, and to tell the people of Toledo that the war was based on lies. I would ask them to call for the troops to come home. They ought to be joining me. I was right about this. And everything I've said has become mainstream. I'm not speaking from the margins. This is why I expect to be elected president of the United States. The media bought the war wholesale, and I didn't. I'm one of the few members of Congress who has consistently challenged the war, and consistently voted against it.

Q: Six weeks ago, you were re-elected to the House. Now you're running for president. What made you change your mind?

A: We took back Congress on the issue of Iraq. But when we had our first caucus meeting after the break, some of our leaders hinted that they wanted to continue funding the war. I was kind of surprised by that. Then House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer spoke up in favor of continuing to fund the war. To me, this represented a colossal mistake that needed to be challenged the only way one can challenge these kinds of things — by running for president. I led the effort in the House, in 2002, in challenging the Bush administration's march toward war. I organized 125 Democrats to vote against the resolution that authorized the Iraq war. I may have given hundreds of speeches in the Congress challenging the authorization for war, not only offering a plan to get out of Iraq, but also challenging each and every appropriation of the war...

[Doctor_J]

1. I recently moved to SE MI

and had a choice of dailies between the Blade and the Freeper Press. I decided on the Blade and have been pretty disappointed. Their sadness at the corrupt OH GOP being booted from office was palpable. I am not surprised that they're attacking a war critic.