Re: Rothschild: Kucinich Hits His Stride

Matthew Rothschild and Dennis Kucinich apparently would prefer Saddam Hussein
 still be in power with his one party state, torture rooms and rape camps.

   No doubt Hussein's Orwellian nightmare 'republic' is what you Greens would
 have if you came to power, God forbid.

   It is no surprise that your candidate for Governor was an "ex" communist.

   The FBI ought to place you people in detention camps.

 bc



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> Editor Matthew Rothschild comments on the news of the day.
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> October 14, 2003
> Kucinich Hits His Stride
> 
> Dennis Kucinich came to Madison on Monday night just hours after
> making his formal declaration as a candidate for the Democratic
> Presidential nomination.
> 
> Kucinich was in rare form. To the strains of John Lennon's "Imagine,"
> he emerged from an airport hangar and delivered a blistering attack on
> George Bush's Iraq policy.
> 
> "It's time for us to end the occupation of Iraq," he said, barely a
> minute into his speech, with the crowd of 200 cheering him on. "It's
> time to bring the U.N. in and the U.S. out, and bring our troops
> home."
> 
> Calling the war "illegal" and saying that the Bush Administration
> "lied" when it took the nation into war, Kucinich said, "I'm the one
> candidate who consistently opposed the war and consistently opposes
> the occupation."
> 
> A man in the crowd held up a sign that said, "Bush Lied, Americans
> Died."
> 
> Kucinich said he, unlike Bush, had an exit strategy. The Congressman
> from Ohio explained how "the U.N. would take charge of all of Iraq's
> oil reserves, without privatization, and the U.N. would handle all the
> contracts."
> 
> Said Kucinich: "No more sweetheart deals for Halliburton. No more war
> profiteering."
> 
> Directly taking on Bush's reckless, newfangled foreign policy,
> Kucinich said it was time to "abandon preemption and unilateralism."
> The United States should rejoin the rest of the world and become "a
> nation among nations. That's the way we'll protect the USA."
> 
> Linking the war on Iraq with our social problems at home, Kucinich
> made much of the $87 billion funding request Bush is asking for. He
> noted that $87 billion is more than the combined budget deficits
> facing the states. Our urgent social needs at home "are all set aside
> for the pursuit of war," he said. The war and Bush's tax cuts to the
> wealthy are leaving "the ideals and dreams of the American people
> smashed," he said.
> 
> Kucinich came out strongly for small farmers and labor rights and a
> living wage. He said he opposes NAFTA and the WTO and wants to "free
> this country from the yoke of corporate domination."
> 
> Kucinich also assailed the privatization of Social Security, Medicare,
> and government jobs. "We will reclaim the public realm," he said.
> 
> But it was the war that seemed to motivate him more than anything
> else.  "We must make occupation the issue," he said.
> 
> When he finished, the crowd chanted, "Go, Dennis, go."
> 
> Kucinich may not be high in the polls, but he's running a campaign of
> high principle, and for that he should be applauded.
> 
> -- Matthew Rothschild