"Get US Military Out of Iraq" by Dennis J. Kucinich

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Get US Military Out of Iraq
by Dennis J. Kucinich

The U.S. military presence in Iraq is counterproductive. If we stay the course, it will damage America's security and lead to a longer war, more troop losses and civilian casualties, hundreds of billions of tax dollars wasted and, inevitably, a draft.

The U.S. invasion was based on lies: Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 or with al-Qaeda's role in it. Iraq didn't have the intention or capability of attacking America. It did not try to get uranium from Niger. It had no weapons of mass destruction. It was wrong to go in. It is wrong to stay in.

This is the time for a peace plan for Iraq and an exit strategy for the U.S. The world community will not make a commitment absent a change of direction in U.S. policy.

These needed steps can bring our troops home, reconnect the U.S. with the world, re-establish our moral authority and lead Iraq toward stability and self-governance:

Transfer control of Iraqi oil assets to the United Nations until Iraq is self-governing.

Hand contracts to the U.N. until Iraq achieves self-governance, so there will be no more Halliburton-type sweetheart deals or war profiteering, and Iraqis can get jobs.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-01.htm

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