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Title : Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War
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Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party Duopoly’ Committed to War
| Ron Paul Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Adam Dick |
In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work to expose the misinformation used to argue for US government interventions overseas before and during the Iraq War and, later, concerning the US effort to assist in the overthrow of the Syria government.
Regarding the Iraq War, Kucinich, who is an Advisory Board member for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, explains that his research showed that “Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with al-Qaeda’s role in 9/11, didn’t have any connection to the anthrax attack, didn’t have the intention or the capability of attacking the United States, and didn’t have the weapons of mass destruction that were being claimed.” This information, Kucinich relates, he provided to US Congress members in an October 2, 2002 report showing “there was no cause for war.”
Despite Kucinich and other individuals’ efforts to stop the march toward war, Congress passed an authorization for use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq later in October, and the invasion of Iraq commenced in March of 2003.
Kucinich, in the interview, places the Iraq War, with its costs including trillions in US government spending and the death of over a million Iraqis, in the context of “this American imperium, this idea that somehow we have the right to establish ourselves anywhere we want” including with “over 800 bases in 132 countries” and to go around the world “looking for dragons to slay while we ignore our own problems here at home.”
Why are we “wasting the blood of our nation, the treasure of our nation, our young people” on these overseas activities that are “causing catastrophes among families in other countries?” Kucinich asks. He answers as follows:
This is a racket. This is a way for people who make arms to cash in or have government contracts to cash in.Continuing with his explanation for the support for the Iraq War and other US military intervention abroad, Kucinich says:
The problem today we have in Washington is that both political parties have converged with the military-industrial complex, fulfilling President Eisenhower’s nightmare and setting America on a path toward destruction.Rescuing America from a future “cataclysmic war,” Kucinich argues, requires that Americans both “realize that our position in the world was never, ever meant to be a cop on the beat, a global cop,” and “challenge this two-party duopoly that’s committed to war.”
Watch Kucinich’s complete interview here:
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