Kucinich Blasts Bush's State of the Union

[sasha031]

Immediately in the wake of President Bush’s State of the Union address, Truthdig interviewed Ohio congressman and 2004 presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, on his reaction to the speech. The first question was about the President’s call to stay the course in Iraq.


Kucinich:

What the president promised was more war. And it’s disheartening to see that he hasn’t gotten the message that all his underpinnings of the war have been knocked out. They’re standing totally on lies. We really need a new policy in Iraq that enables us to get out of Iraq and bring our troops home. A majority of Americans want us to leave Iraq this year, yet what we heard tonight was a commitment to war with no end, and war we cannot win.

The president is committed to victory, but that kind of arrogance is sure to lead to catastrophe not only for the people of Iraq, but for the men and women who bravely serve this country. And I want to say that withdrawal is not retreat. There is a need for a new approach, involving the international community, not the United States trying to dictate unilaterally the future of Iraq.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060131_kucinich_sotu/

[Greeby]

1. ....

:applause:

[Cocoa]

2. his comments on health care are right on

as usual...

The message from the president on healthcare was very clear: ‘Don’t get sick.’ If you happen to have money and you’re healthy, health saving accounts are a great idea. If you’re like the rest of Americans, health savings accounts don’t offer you anything and as a matter of fact they give no relief to 46 million Americans who are without health insurance. We need a universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care system that would help the health of this country, it would help the economy of this country, and it put American on line with all the other industrialized nations.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. How many billions in profits does the HMO industry rake in each year?

How much were their combined profits for last year, how about from 2001 thru 2005? As long as the HMOs are raking in the profits on the backs of the sick, there will be no universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care system in this country, right?

[Desertrose]

8. a kick for Healthcare & Dennis

"We need a universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care system that would help the health of this country, it would help the economy of this country, and it put American on line with all the other industrialized nations."

[Desertrose]

3. Dennis always speaks the truth......

cuts through all the crap & tells it like it is.

...and that's why the media ( and some others) ignore him.

Dennis Kucinich :yourock:

DR

[no_hypocrisy]

4. IMHO, I think that Dennis scares the dems more than the republicans.

HE should have been responding to the SOTU speech, not Kaine.

[sasha031]

5. I agree

[Cocoa]

6. Kucinich applauds the dems for applauding Bush

I’m glad the democrats stood up to applaud the president when he said that he wasn’t able to do what he wanted to do on social security. The whole thing on social security privatization was a scam, and we should never forget that this administration tried to privatize a system that is not broken, tried to fix it with a private solution that would have benefited Wall Street, and not the American people.

[Marleyb]

9. Unite the democratic party behind Dennis!

We need to stop allowing people to divide the democratic party and instead unite behind the true heart of the democratic party...Dennis Kucinich!

[MaggieSwanson]

10. I love that man.

I really, really do.

[upi402]

11. Kucinich is wonderful. Imagine that he won in 4004

Wow! Sure would love to see him as President right NOW!