 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Kucinich was never afraid to take the positions that should have been at the core of the Democratic party. He opposed the Patriot Act when few brave Democrats would join him. He was opposed to the Iraq war from the outset, whipping his colleagues against it, with the result that three-fifths of House Democrats voted against that immoral, illegal invasion. Once it began, he called on Congress to defund it, when few in his party were willing to go along. Despite almost no political support, he introduced articles of impeachment against VP Cheney, accusing him (rightly, I believe) of lying to the American people to get us into the war in Iraq. Last week, thanks in large part to Republican gerrymandering, he lost his bid for reelection. In his loss, the country loses something too. Whatever your view of Kucinich's politics or style, he mattered a great deal. - WaPo, Katrina vanden Heuvel |
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