Kucinich: "Afghanistan Awash w/ U.S. Cash and U.S. Blood"

[amborin]

Afghanistan “Awash with US Cash and US Blood”

WASHINGTON - February 26 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing war in Afghanistan:


“The Washington Post reports that nearly one billion dollars per year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid, opium receipts or both, is moving from Afghanistan to Dubai, where friends and family of Afghanistan’s President Karzai have multimillion dollar villas.


“Dubai real estate deals and a number of crooked enterprises connected to the Karzai family have created crony capitalism in a country awash with U.S. cash and U.S. blood.


“Nearly 1000 U.S. soldiers have died. And for what? Hundreds of billions spent. And for what? To make Afghanistan safe for crooks, drug dealers and crony capitalism?


“Next Thursday, I will bring a privileged resolution to this House so that Congress can claim our constitutional right to end this war and to bring our troops home. Please support the resolution.”


Kucinich will introduce the resolution on Thursday, March 4, 2010. It is expected that the resolution will be taken up for consideration on the following Wednesday, March 10, 2010 and that the debate will be subject to a rule providing for three hours of debate.

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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/26-7

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[dana_b]

2. thanks Dennis

I highly doubt that his resolution will go far however I commend his determination and drive to end this horrible war.

[trusty elf]

3. Makes my blood BOIL ! ! ! ! ! !

:argh::grr::nuke:

[flyarm]

4. How many of us Dems have been saying this for years? Thank You Dennis!

enough is enough..

To me the only reason we stay is to keep being the worlds biggest Opium traders!
and for that our soldiers die.

[pleah]

5. K&R

[Wilms]

6. k&r n/t

[LWolf]

7. k & r for the best Democrat standing, bar none. nt

[upi402]

8. The problem many here have with Kucinich is

that he always ends up being right, and the "reasonable" Democrats are absolutely upside-down. They hate that.

[Vidar]

9. K&R.

[SoCalDem]

10. A better idea might be to arm the soldiers with cash

and have them knock on doors, handing out money to the locals :)..and when they run out of money, they just come home..

makes as much sense as what we are trying to do..

[Greyhound]

11. For what, indeed! K&R

And now we're going to let the perpetrators just walk away with a huge bag of money for their murder spree.
:grr:

[slipslidingaway]

12. knr nt

[Echo In Light]

13. K&R for DK

[xiamiam]

14. Dennis speaks the truth..so appreciative of him. k and r