Kucinich On Bush In Cleveland - US Flag and the Capitol Dome
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=41197
Washington, March 20, 2006

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement today on President Bush's trip to Cleveland: "The people of the Cleveland-area do not need an update on the war on terror from the President. Unfortunately, the people of Cleveland are familiar with the real war on terror going on here at home. Clevelanders, and all Ohioans, are all too familiar with the terror of joblessness, the terror of cut backs in pensions and health care, the terror of foreclosure, the terror of trade policies that have gutted our manufacturing base and the terror of economic policies that have left many of them behind. Ohio handed President Bush the keys to the White House and since then has suffered greatly under policies advocated by this Administration.Millions of Ohioans are jobless, homeless and without health care because of policies advocated by this Administration.”

"Today, instead of addressing the real terrors that Ohioans face everyday, the President delivered another stump speech intend to help his sagging poll numbers and plummeting support for his ill-conceived, ill-advised, misguided and failed Iraq policy. Yesterday marked the tragic third anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq. Three years of arrogance and incompetence. Three years of contempt and lies. Three years of death and destruction.”

"The President speech today was nothing more than the same rhetoric that led us into war and keeps us in war. Today, the President attempted to pass off as progress advances in a city-Tal Afar-that represents less than 1% of the total population of Iraq. Tal Afar has a population of about 250,000 people, about the same as Anchorage, Alaska. This is the failed logic that has been the hallmark of this Administration's entire Iraq policy. The people of Cleveland, and the entire nation, seem to understand what this President and the neoconservatives who advocated the war do not. The war and occupation of Iraq has been a failure that has cost us dearly at home and abroad and must come to an end. It is time to bring all our troops home and address the real terrors Ohioans face everyday."

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann W. von Goethe

Spring Cleaning - Investigate the Entire Bush Regime for War Crimes, for Crimes against Humanity and for the Crime of 9-11
Commentary by Linda Zoblotsky
March 21, 2006
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=8157

Americans, ask your Representatives why in the world in almost 5 years the United States has failed to bring anyone to justice for the 9-11 murders? Why has the "Omissions" Commission failed to uphold justice for any individual or group responsible for the 9-11 tragedy? Why did we kill first anywhere from 30,000 people in Iraq, according to President Bush, or thousands more in Afghanistan and Iraq, before we came as a nation to closure by finding out who coordinated the 9-11 attacks and then punish those proven to be involved, as we came to punish McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombings?

Why hasn't anyone asked why the 9-11 Commission was delayed until after the rubble at the very large crime scene of Ground Zero was cleared away? The mainstream press reported within 24 hours of the 9-11 attacks the names of the 19 hijackers. With families of the victims working to obtain DNA evidence of their loved ones in order to have some kind of a funeral, where is the DNA evidence that these 19 men acted alone or with Osama to bring down the towers and the Pentagon and possibly another attack on Washington with the airplane shot down in PA.

The American people pay the salaries of these 2 men, President Bush and Vice President Cheney, who with the help of corporate cronies and the Supreme Court hold this nation and this democracy in hostage of their ill-conceived neo-conservative ideals. No impeachment procedure is complete until Congress demands the reopening and completion of the 9-11 Commission. Bring the American people justice by having the 9-11 Commission interview Bush alone and Cheney alone on camera in prime time.

Invite non-corporate cronies to attend and question the President. Let's show the world democracy and justice in action. Bring it on, get Michael Rupport, Ralph Nader, The 9-11 Citizen's Commission and Cynthia McKinney, to question the President and the Vice President about what they knew and what orders they executed in response to the August 6th, 2001 Daily Briefing that was supposed to warn our Commander-In-Chief that America was in grave danger. What did the "MBA" "Education" and "Compassionate Conservative" President order any government agency to do to protect American citizens in response to that Aug. 6th Daily Briefing and even other briefings unknown to the American people, but helpful to other people who avoided flying commercial that summer of 2001?

What has the President done to protect Americans in his ill-conceived war on terror? Has the President contributed to a bake sale to raise money for our loved ones' armor in Afghanistan and Iraq? How are we different from Saddam's regime when we do not ask the questions that need to be asked of President Bush, Vice President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of "WAR" Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales when it comes to the illegal wiretapping of citizens of the United States? How cowardly that we ask men and women to die on foreign soil to protect us, yet we do not demand those in charge to go on record with the court system for obtaining the permission to spy on our own.

Some conservatives might read what I am writing and accuse me of hating America. I see the quest for Peace, Democracy and Justice in our own country as a positive value and as a positive value shared by the American people. The Progressives, real Conservatives, some Republicans and Democrats, Greens, Libertarians, Socialists and Independent Thinkers of the United States are reaching out to the world to communicate that the war in Iraq, the massive killing and destruction is not being done in OUR name. We see the world and the earth's people and environment as one and connected. We reach out and join groups such as United for Peace and Justice and the Peace Alliance and support a U.S. Department of Peace, proposed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Ohio-D) at the Executive Branch level because Peace and Justice is a noble cause and inevitable.

Published on Wednesday, March 22, 2006
PEACE TAKES TIME, BUT WE MUST LET IT BEGIN
By Aaron Glantz
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0322-32.htm