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Steve Cobble has been involved in political campaigns and the antiwar movement since the McGovern campaign. He was most recently on the Kucinich campaign. He is a Co-Founder of Progressive Democrats for America and AfterDowningStreet.org. He is also a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, March 5, 2012 Do We Owe Anything to Those Who Stand Up for Us?
When Congressman Dennis Kucinich sat down in Los Angeles one night just over 10 years ago to write the prophetic speech that became known as "A Prayer for America", the invasion of Iraq was still just an evil gleam in the eyes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Tony Blair. Yet Kucinich had the political courage to stand up by himself, and declare his opposition to the neocon lies: