Kucinich Charges President Has Gone ‘Too Far’ and ‘Too Close’ to Igniting War

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — By raising the specter of a possible World War III predicated on Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions, “the White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to
avoid,” Ohio Congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said today.
“You can worry about the Apocalypse, or, you can ensure it by manipulating intelligence and, with pre-meditation, put your finger on the trigger that will make Iran the next deadly domino in the President’s irresponsible and irrational approach to the complex and sensitive
political issues that make the region a more volatile tinder box than ever before,” Kucinich said.
“The President told the media yesterday that this wasn’t his first rodeo,” Kucinich said. “It’s also not the first time he’s invoked the potential of another world war to bolster support for his monumentally failed foreign policy. Any leader who, either off the cuff or
intentionally, conjures up rodeo analogies to defend himself is far beyond colorful, albeit inarticulate aphorisms. Those horsemen he pridefully alludes to are not from a rodeo, they are the horsemen of the Apocalypse. And he must be stopped before unleashing them.”
Kucinich continued, “If the President continues policies that fuel the extremists in Iraq because of our continued occupation, and if he continues rallying support in Congress for possible aggression against Iran, he is purposely fulfilling his own prophesy and sentencing this nation and its brave sons and daughters to a war that never ends and a newer, bigger war
that will be even more horrific.”
Kucinich said the leadership of the Democratic Party has failed to curtail the President’s war policies. Members of Congress who supported anti-Iran measures or did not challenge them, and Presidential candidates who fail to understand the gravity of the situation and speak out are “in
dereliction of their duty to the citizens of the United States of America.”
The invasion and occupation of Iraq, Kucinich said, “provide overwhelming evidence that the President and his cohorts in the Administration and in the Congress deceived the American people, lied to them, and violated their Constitutional oaths of office. Using that wholly fraudulent proposition to springboard to an attack on Iran is not only Constitutionally impeachable, it is patently criminal under the laws of this nation.”

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