[Dennis Kucinich in NYC on Saturday, March 20th, with students who are circulating a petition to create a Department of Peace based on his proposal. Photo: Ryan Adkins]

Peace Must Be Our Goal - March 21, 2004
Dennis Kucinich welcomes you to continue to take part in his campaigns efforts to bring the focus of the Democratic Party to the principles we have consistently stood for - peace and social and economic justice - both in America and abroad. Thank you for the overwhelming support you have shown over the past year. One year after the invasion, your help is still critical. If you possibly can, please contribute or volunteer. Also, please ask everyone you know who wants to end the war to pitch in. Remember, one person can make a difference.

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION IN NYC
On Saturday, March 20th, Dennis was one of the keynote speakers in New York City, the site of one of the largest events on a Global Day of Action to protest against the invasion, occupation and corporate control of Iraq. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of people protested against the U.S. presence in Iraq.

Thousands March For Peace
ALTERNET
by Sarah Ferguson
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18184

Commentary from "Buttermilk & Molasses" Blogger Website
WHEN PANIC IS THE BEST DEFENSE
When former terrorism czar Richard Clarke came out punching this weekend, did anyone expect the White House to curl up and whimper? Of course not. So, they came out punching back. And whimpering a little. Clarke, who spoke out rather smartly on "60 Minutes" tonight, beats the Bush administration around the ears for dancing around al Qaida for eight months, trying a little too hard to link Iraq and bin Laden, and missing the beat over the past few years when it comes to fighting terrorism. He almost managed to come across as genuine. And that's more than you'd expect from a former Bush administration official.

For all of the quibbling you might hear about Clarke's facts-n-figures, his general theme is on-point. The record is pretty clear that Condoleeza Rice ignored the al Qaeda portfolio when she sailed into the White House in January of 2001, despite warnings from Clarke, Sandy Berger and others. The record is pretty clear that the Defense Department's Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, at a minimum, had Iraq on the brain before the September 11 terrorism attacks -- and that they were even hotter to trot into Iraq on September 12. And the record is pretty clear that ticking off a handful of al Qaida hotshots (hot in 2001) ignores the dozens of new faces being slotted into new roles in the terror group.

Whether Clinton, Gore or Bush were in office on that Tuesday morning in September, sadly, is not the issue. It's highly likely that the thousands who died would still have died. But there were opportunities before September 11 to foil the plot, and the Bush team failed. And there is a laundry list of post-attack failures and fumbles -- inadequate funding for homeland security, foreign policy bungles galore, Iraq has become a new battleground instead of an old one, al Qaida and its junior partners have been fragmented but are possibly more dangerous as a result. The Bush administration has, in fact, been fighting a war since September 11, 2001. They've fought it earnestly. They've fought it inadequately. And that's why they don't deserve a second chance.