Postami Aggregator Feed for Dennis Kucinich http://www.www.postami.com/ 2008-07-09T07:21:21+01:00 text/html 2006-07-25T04:11:04+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/0101.html this, from jewish voice for peace: finally, we have a bill in the house of representatives that we need to support. brought by Dennis Kucinich and with 23 co-sponsors, h....... text/html 2005-10-25T16:27:00+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/0100.html bill # h.res.505original sponsor:dennis Kucinich ask your rep to co-sponsor. for ease, use this tool.“this group, comprised of the president and vice president’s top aides, was critical in selling the administration’s case for war,â€? stated Kucinich. “we now know that the administration hyped intelligence and misled the american public and congress in their effort to ’sell’ the war. after over 1,900 american troops have been killed in iraq, it is long past time for this congress to ask serious questions about whig and its role in the lead up to the war.â€?... text/html 2005-10-21T03:25:00+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/099.html ...demands documents from whig-questions iraq reconstructiondid you get that?kucinich introduces resolution of inquirykucinich uses resolution of inquiry to demand documents from white house group that developed strategy to “sellâ€? war to the public and presswashington, oct 20 - congressman Dennis j. Kucinich (d-oh) today introduced a resolution of inquiry to demand the white house turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the white house iraq group (whig).“this group, comprised of the president and vice president’s top aides, was critical in selling the administration’s case for war,â€? stated Kucinich. “we now know that the administration hyped intelligence and misled the american public and congress in their effort to ‘sell’ the wa... text/html 2005-09-30T19:49:11+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/098.html the center for american progress has published a "progressive exit strategy" for iraq called strategic redeployment (pdf). one of the things i like most about it is that it addresses head-on the fact that we will not be able to sustain our current deployment in iraq past the end of 2006 and certainly not longer than that (see iraq: squaring the circle for more on this). as the paper says, there are no good options anymore, there is only a choice among options trying to find what is the least bad. i think that the strategic redeployment paper represents an important contribution to the national debate we need to have over iraq. i hope that progressives can come together to discuss this along with the plans being offered by (in alphabetical order) wes clark, juan cole, russ feingold, Den... text/html 2005-09-04T12:16:31+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/097.html congressman Dennis kucininch gave this statement in the house on friday.(pdf) inidfference is a weapon of mass destruction. our troops are stationed in the wrong gulf. congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations because until there are basic changes in the direction of this government, this tragedy will multiply to apocalyptic proportions. the administration said yesterday no one anticipated the breach of the levees. did the administration not see or care about the 2001 fema warning about the risk of a devastating hurricane hitting the people of new orleans? did it not know or care that civil and army engineers were warning for years about the consequences of failure to strengthen the flood control system? was it aware or did it care that the very same administr... text/html 2005-08-25T14:12:15+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/096.html +99999.00%... text/html 2005-08-23T16:24:11+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/095.html ap - ohio rep. Dennis Kucinich has married a british woman, shedding the bachelor status that made headlines during his long-shot presidential campaign in 2004.... text/html 2005-08-19T15:53:53+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/094.html by exit strategy i mean a humane alternative to the “no exit” nightmare described long ago by jean-paul sartre. but recognizing the term is inadequate, too mechanical for some, i believe it should be understood in the context of the art of conflict resolution, the substance of Dennis kucinich’s proposed department of peace. tom hayden, that old hippie, has a very informative blog post for developing an exit strategy from iraq. he describes what i see to be a practical and viable strategy, while pointing out little facts like, “…american monopoly on the iraqi economy, in which us contractors pocket...... text/html 2005-06-28T14:05:30+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/093.html a lot of the debate over whether the u.s. should withdraw or "stay the course" in iraq seems to miss a couple of points. prime among them: we may not have any choice the reserves are "broken" (see also here), recruiting is plummeting (1, 2, 3, 4, etc), and those who are already in are getting out any way they can (see also these articles about the increasingly broken army: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). the current troop presence in iraq is unsustainable (emphasis added): even more importantly, the human costs to the all-volunteer army, especially, have been staggering. the army currently has 17 brigades deployed in iraq, from an active force of 33 brigades, which should grow to 44 brigades as the result of internal army restructuring. most reserve component brigades have already been called ... text/html 2005-06-26T20:14:42+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/092.html ... text/html 2005-06-21T22:33:10+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/090.html us out, un in. juan cole argues for the u.s. force in iraq to be replaced with a un peace enforcement force: the united states will eventually have to go to the united nations and request that it send a peace-enforcing mission to iraq, as the us military withdraws. the relevant model is the untac experience in cambodia, which, while it had substantial flaws, was also a relative success. in the long term, perhaps 5-10 years, the iraqi government may develop its own military that could keep order. that development is far enough off, however, that there is likely to be a significant gap between the time the us leaves and the time the iraqis can fend for themselves. a us withdrawal without a united nations replacement would risk throwing iraq into civil war... ...the united nations force pu... text/html 2005-06-20T01:22:22+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/091.html juan cole argues for the u.s. force in iraq to be replaced with a un peace enforcement force: the united states will eventually have to go to the united nations and request that it send a peace-enforcing mission to iraq, as the us military withdraws. the relevant model is the untac experience in cambodia, which, while it had substantial flaws, was also a relative success. in the long term, perhaps 5-10 years, the iraqi government may develop its own military that could keep order. that development is far enough off, however, that there is likely to be a significant gap between the time the us leaves and the time the iraqis can fend for themselves. a us withdrawal without a united nations replacement would risk throwing iraq into civil war... ...the united nations force put into iraq sho... text/html 2005-06-15T21:23:23+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/089.html so Dennis Kucinich and neil abercrombie have found a few republican chumps to co-sponor their newest tuck tail and run proposal. Kucinich is touting this...... text/html 2005-06-13T16:21:07+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/088.html ... text/html 2005-06-09T05:38:40+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/087.html joe gandelman is a professional voice. his schtick on the internet is that of a professional moderate voice, someone who is reasonable, who avoids the excesses of partisanship, who takes a deep breath and realizes that there are two sides to every story and that we need to be... calm, reasonable, and thoughtful always. he reads peggy noonan. his brain explodes. now he is one of us! embrace your destiny! feel the power of shrillness! welcome to the ancient and hermetic order of the shrill, mr. gandelman--those of us who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, stupidity, incompetence, recklessness, and idiocy of the bush administration and its allies. your personal copy of the krugmanomicon (along with additional promotional material containing many valuable offer... text/html 2004-10-07T19:59:31+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/086.html complete with documentation: dennis Kucinich was right... text/html 2004-08-31T20:20:17+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/085.html i got an email from the howard dean campaign yesterday soliciting a donation. at first, i ignored it but the subject line stuck in my head: now is the time. i thought about that subject line a lot today and about the future of this country. i also thought about some of the reasons why i left the democratic party [1]. the main reason i left the democrats for the greens [2] was that i saw the party become a "republican-lite" party. the party seemed more focused on getting elected than it was on the actual issues they are supposed to be fighting for. i really feel that this whole "new democrat [3]" nonsense is destroying the party. howard dean [4] seems different. he is not my ideal candidate (that would be Dennis Kucinich [5]) but he is not another "dlc [6] democrat." i think that if he... text/html 2004-08-14T04:10:43+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/084.html quote of the week rep. Dennis Kucinich u.s. rep. Dennis Kucinich (d-ohio) yesterday addressed the 2004 democratic national convention in boston. the full text of rep. kucinichs speech can be found at his former campaign web site: among much else, rep. Kucinich told delegates, democrats, american citizens, and people ...... text/html 2004-07-27T05:43:52+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/083.html laugh if you must, but Dennis Kucinich finally packed in his campaign for the white house last week. Kucinich, a three-term democratic congressman and former cleveland mayor, announced his withdrawal (and his endorsement of senator john kerry) standing next to senator kerry at a national urban league conference in detroit...... text/html 2004-07-15T07:43:37+01:00 Postami Aggregator http://www.postami.com/uspresidentials/Dennis+Kucinich/081.html dennis Kucinich and john kerry strike a deal. ...