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Kucinich: Bush
Wants More War
This Time With Iran
10/25/07 "ICH" -- -- WASHINGTON, DC - October 25 - Today,
the Bush Administration announced additional sanctions on Iran
and labeled the Revolutionary Guard Corps as proliferators of
weapons of mass destruction and a unit of the Corps – the Quds
Force – as a “specially designed global terrorist.” Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) charged the Administration with drumming
up support for a war with Iran.
“The Administration has been dramatically increasing its efforts
in the last several weeks to go to war with Iran,” Kucinich
said. “This latest stunt is nothing more than an attempt to
deceive Americans into yet another war—this time with Iran.”
Last week, President Bush stated in a news conference: “So I’ve
told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III,
it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them
(Iran) from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear
weapon.”
In a speech Sunday to the Washington Institute for Near East
Studies, Vice President Dick Cheney said that if Iran continues
on its current course, the United States and other nations are
“prepared to impose serious consequences. Our country, and the
entire international community, cannot stand by as a
terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions.”
In announcing the sanctions today, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said: “Unfortunately the Iranian government
continues to spurn our offer of open negotiations, instead
threatening peace and security by pursuing nuclear technologies
that can lead to a nuclear weapon, building dangerous ballistic
missiles, supporting Shia militants in Iraq and terrorists in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and
denying the existence of a fellow member of the United Nations,
threatening to wipe Israel off the map.”
“After the lies and deception used to lead us to war in Iraq,
the belligerent Bush Administration cannot be given leeway with
statements that suggest a preemptive attack on Iran is
necessary,” Kucinich said. “We are systematically destroying
every available route to restoring peace and security in the
Middle East.
“Congress must take back its exclusive authority to declare war
from the Bush Administration.”
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