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A New Voice Echoes Kucinich's Message on Iraq
Read the following statements, and try to guess who's making them:
"The administration's Iraq policy is in shambles.and the time has come for the United States to withdraw." The United States" should suspend all offensive military operations in Iraq, pull its forces back to defensive enclaves well away from Iraq's cities, and commence a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq that will be completed on December 31." "The administration has dug a hole in Iraq. It is time to stopping digging deeper. The war was a tragic, avoidable mistake, and those who opposed it have been vindicated. The administration should be held accountable, both for leading the nation in war under false pretenses and for its willful failure to think through the consequences of going to war with Iraq." "staying the course--continuing to pay these costs in pursuit of policy objectives that cannot be attained--is not the answer. Instead of compounding our losses in Iraq, we should be cutting them." Answer: The American Conservative magazine, one of the nation's leading conservative voices. In a cover story in its May 10 issue (The No-Win War), the American Conservative publishes an insightful and compelling look at the failures and futility of the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq. It was written by Christopher Layne, a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy and a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. "The time has come," Layne writes, "for a statesman to step forward and ask the American people the question that must be asked: if the United States remains in Iraq, how do we tell the U.S. troops there that one of them will be the last one to die for a mistake?"
Read the entire story: http://www.amconmag.com/2004_05_10/index1.html
KUCINICH BOSTON CONVENTION HQ OPENS MAY 10
BOSTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who has been promising supporters for months that he intends to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic National Convention in Boston, just moved closer to that goal. When the Convention opens at the Fleet Center on July 26, Kucinich and his staff will be headquartered in offices near the Boston Common, about six minutes away. And the Kucinich convention team will be headed by Democratic convention veteran and long-time political activist Tim Carpenter. "We intend to wage an aggressive campaign within the Democratic
Party at the convention on issues like peace, health care, jobs and trade agreements, and civil liberties," said Kucinich.
Kucinich said he will challenge the leadership of the Democratic Party on several fronts, foremost among them the war in Iraq. "The Party needs to take a strong stand on Iraq, which means ending the occupation and bringing our troops home. We will do everything in our power to deliver that message," said Kucinich, the Congressman from Ohio who led the fight on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to oppose the 2002 war authorization resolution. On Monday, at a combined headquarters-opening and news media briefing, Kucinich and his convention team will outline their plans "to move the Party in a new direction." Kucinich, who will be campaigning in Oregon that day, will address his staff and speak with the news media via telephone.
Carpenter, 45, is the western Massachusetts director of the Clean Elections campaign. He also served as field organizer for Warren Tolman's 2002 gubernatorial campaign. He was a national delegate at three previous conventions and served in key positions in the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson (1988), Jerry Brown (1992), and Bill Clinton (1996). In 1992, he spoke from the podium at the national convention in New York City along with Hollywood film maker and author Oliver Stone. Over the years, Carpenter, a teacher, has been deeply involved in a variety of political and social issues, ranging from peace activism and nuclear disarmament to abolishing the death penalty and defending the homeless. The new Kucinich headquarters office is at 59 Temple Place, Suite 449, in the central business district. The grand opening event will from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The office phone number is (617) 542-3509.
