Kucinich, in Oregon, warns of another Vietnam
Democrat says administration 'needs to realize Iraq is a dead end'
From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Monday, April 5, 2004 10:32 PM
Reference Code: AR-14694
April 5 - PORTLAND - In the wake of the deadliest 48 hours of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich warned Monday that the continuing U.S. military engagement there “will seem like Vietnam all over again.”
“The messages we’re hearing today – ‘stay the course,’ ‘as long as it takes,’ – are the same messages were heard then,” Kucinich said. It was
a “failed strategy” then, he said, and it is a failed strategy now.
“This has to stop,” Kucinich said at a news conference in Portland. “The (Republican) Administration needs to recognize that Iraq
is a dead end,” Kucinich told reporters, and his own Democratic Party “needs to take a strong stand against the war and in support of bringing
our troops home.”
Kucinich, the last remaining challenger to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, said, “It was wrong to go, and
it’s wrong to stay.”
Pointing the mounting death toll of U.S. military personnel, Kucinich said, “More than 600 brave men and women have lost their lives, and the violence continues to escalate. It’s time to...(Full Story)
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