Kucinich advocates Department of Peace
Friday, May 28, 2004
TOM GORDON
News staff writer
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who will be a candidate in Tuesday's Alabama Democratic presidential primary, says there should be a Cabinet-level Department of Peace.
"We have people running our government and there have been people running governments from time immemorial who happen to believe in the inevitability of war," the Ohio Democrat told a largely student audience Thursday afternoon at Birmingham-Southern College.
Kucinich, a former mayor of Cleveland, is a staunch opponent of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. He has conceded the Democratic presidential nomination to U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., but has continued his campaign because he wants Kerry and the party to embrace some of his ideas. Those include establishing universal health care, ending the Patriot Act, pulling the nation out of the North American Free Trade Agreement and establishing a Department of Peace.
"In order to win the election, (Kerry) has got to...(Full Story)
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