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We’ll force a vote on whether to stay in Afghanistan – Congressman Kucinich
23 December, 2009, 11:02
US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is circulating a resolution to end the war in Afghanistan, says he is simply trying to reclaim the forgotten constitutional responsibility of Congress to start and end war.
Kucinich reminds the basic principles that “It is not appropriate for generals to be making decisions on their own about whether the United States goes into battle. They do not have the final judgment, not in a democracy. In a democracy this final judgment has to go to the elected officials.”
Kucinich says more defense spending may lead to the collapse of the US economy.
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“I can understand that [Afghan President] Karzai wants the US to be there pumping a $100 billion year after year. I don’t know where he thinks we are going to get the money from,” questions the Congressman. “Because we have over 15 million people unemployed, 10 to 12 million will lose their homes in the next year, 47 million Americans go to bed hungry every night and don’t have any healthcare, millions of Americans have lost their investments, their pensions, their retirement security. We have those to take care here at home. And we cannot continue to spend money on these foreign adventures.”
Kucinich says you don’t need to be a general or a politician to understand that the strategy to buy off the opposition in Afghanistan is perverse.
“You cannot buy friends, everyone knows this… The friends who you try to buy are the least reliable of your friends. The friends we try to buy in Afghanistan are with us one day, and the next day they are shooting at us.”
We’ll force a vote on whether to stay in Afghanistan – Congressman Kucinich
23 December, 2009, 11:02
US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is circulating a resolution to end the war in Afghanistan, says he is simply trying to reclaim the forgotten constitutional responsibility of Congress to start and end war.
Kucinich reminds the basic principles that “It is not appropriate for generals to be making decisions on their own about whether the United States goes into battle. They do not have the final judgment, not in a democracy. In a democracy this final judgment has to go to the elected officials.”
Kucinich says more defense spending may lead to the collapse of the US economy.
Read more
“I can understand that [Afghan President] Karzai wants the US to be there pumping a $100 billion year after year. I don’t know where he thinks we are going to get the money from,” questions the Congressman. “Because we have over 15 million people unemployed, 10 to 12 million will lose their homes in the next year, 47 million Americans go to bed hungry every night and don’t have any healthcare, millions of Americans have lost their investments, their pensions, their retirement security. We have those to take care here at home. And we cannot continue to spend money on these foreign adventures.”
Kucinich says you don’t need to be a general or a politician to understand that the strategy to buy off the opposition in Afghanistan is perverse.
“You cannot buy friends, everyone knows this… The friends who you try to buy are the least reliable of your friends. The friends we try to buy in Afghanistan are with us one day, and the next day they are shooting at us.”
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