Kucinich: Vote NO on $87 Billion for Iraq

      Kucinich Takes To The House Floor To Urge Colleagues To Vote
Against $87 Billion Supplemental

        http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/1001-07.htm

      WASHINGTON - October 1 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH),
leader of the opposition to the war against Iraq in the House, took to
the House floor today to urge his colleagues to vote against the
Administration's $87 billion supplemental request.
      Kucinich stated:

      "It is time for the United States to get out of Iraq. It is time
to get the United Nations in and the United States out. It is time to
bring our troops home and end this sorry exercise in preemption and
unilateralism.

      "This supplemental request will bring the current total cost for
the war and occupation of Iraq to about $150 billion dollars and
counting. America can ill afford to spend another $87 billion in
support of a war that has no end, no exit, no logic, and no sense. It
is time to come up with a plan to get the UN in and the US out. We
must work with the world community towards this goal.

      "Today, the Administration will tell Congress that it was
deceived by Saddam Hussein in to thinking Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction. Let this Congress not be deceived by an Administration
that took this nation into a war we did not have to fight.

      "Bring our troops home. Vote against the $87 billion. Get the UN
in and the US out."



-- 
"When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding.
When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding."  ---Dennis
Kucinich