Kucinich Speaks Up
By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium: Wed., Jan 16, 2008
About keeping the rhetoric down. From the floor of the House today:
"Over the past few years, this Administration has been beating the drums of war against Iran. There are parallels between their efforts to try to create a war against Iran and the falsehoods that set us on a path to war against Iraq.
We know that the United States intelligence community was able to demonstrate that the Administration’s claims that Iran had a nuclear weapons program were, in fact, not true.
The January 6 incident at the Strait of Hormuz is still another cause for this Congress to look deeply at the Administration’s Iranian war buildup.
It appears from news reports that the Department of Defense grossly inflated an encounter that took place in the Strait — an encounter that was not unlike any that had taken place before. Not only did the Department of Defense inflate it, but they fabricated information that would cause the American people to believe that Iran was demonstrating military aggressiveness."
A good way to pressure those with more power to conduct a thorough investigation
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Is that a quote from Dennis?
Is that what Dennis said on the House floor today?
I saw on Democracy Now! he rushed back from Nevada to challenge some middle-of-the-night "defense" spending bill. Can you say reminiscent of the method for passing the Patriot Act?
As he noted, it was his fellow Democrats this time who were about to shove something through without debate.