Dennis
Kucinich Tells Jesse Ventura "This Is A Racket!
A Way For
People Who Make Arms To Cash In!"
By Adam
Dick
Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the ‘Two-Party
Duopoly’ Committed to War
By Adam Dick
October 11,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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In a new interview with
host Jesse Ventura at RT, former United States
presidential candidate and House of Representatives
Member Dennis Kucinich stressed the importance of
the American people challenging the “two-party
duopoly that’s committed to war.”
In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work to
expose the misinformation used to argue for US
government interventions overseas before and during
the Iraq War and, later, concerning the US effort to
assist in the overthrow of the Syria government.
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Regarding the Iraq War, Kucinich, who is an Advisory
Board member for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace
and Prosperity, explains that his research showed
that “Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to
do with al-Qaeda’s role in 9/11, didn’t have any
connection to the anthrax attack, didn’t have the
intention or the capability of attacking the United
States, and didn’t have the weapons of mass
destruction that were being claimed.” This
information, Kucinich relates, he provided to US
Congress members in an October 2, 2002
report showing
“there was no cause for war.”
Despite Kucinich and other individuals’ efforts to
stop the march toward war, Congress passed an
authorization for use of military force (AUMF)
against Iraq later in October, and the invasion of
Iraq commenced in March of 2003.
Kucinich, in the interview, places the Iraq War,
with its costs including trillions in US government
spending and the death of over a million Iraqis, in
the context of “this American imperium, this idea
that somehow we have the right to establish
ourselves anywhere we want” including with “over 800
bases in 132 countries” and to go around the world
“looking for dragons to slay while we ignore our own
problems here at home.”
Why are we “wasting the blood of our nation, the
treasure of our nation, our young people” on these
overseas activities that are “causing catastrophes
among families in other countries?” Kucinich asks.
He answers as follows:
This is a
racket. This is a way for people who make arms
to cash in or have government contracts to cash
in.
Continuing
with his explanation for the support for the Iraq
War and other US military intervention abroad,
Kucinich says:
The
problem today we have in Washington is that both
political parties have converged with the
military-industrial complex, fulfilling
President Eisenhower’s nightmare and setting
America on a path toward destruction.
Rescuing
America from a future “cataclysmic war,” Kucinich
argues, requires that Americans both “realize that
our position in the world was never, ever meant to
be a cop on the beat, a global cop,” and “challenge
this two-party duopoly that’s committed to war.”
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