Rep. Dennis Kucinich: " Democrats were to quick to compromise "

Kucinich: Why couldn’t she have said: “This war must end”? Congress has the power to cut off funds. Congress has the power to limit the funds. Congress could have taken a new direction. Let’s face it, Democrats are expected to do that. ... We need to go in a new direction. And that direction is out. And the fact that we gave the president money today to keep the war going through the end of his term constitutes a sellout of the interests of the American people. And a continuation of the war for another year at least, possibly two, and this is just wrong. Just totally wrong.

   That was Rep. Dennis Kucinich in response to a statement from James Harris ( Truthdig ) who had said that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats couldn't have gone in with a more tougher stance on Iraq and who is one that thinks Pelosi did a good job in getting this Iraq troop withdrawal bill passed.

   In the telephone interview between Harris and Dennis Kucinich ( D- OH ), Kucinich has a few valid points in being a little ill with the way that the House has passed a bill that still gives Bush money for a war that could last into 2008 and beyond. Kucinich's entire argument is that the American voters told the Congress and the Senate to get the troops out of Iraq now, not in stages or in the future. Mr. Kucinich is right.

   The transcript of the phone interview is located right HERE

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