In an exclusive interview with CBS News Anchor Dan Rather, Saddam Hussein denied Iraq's al-Samoud missiles violated U.N. mandates, and indicated that he will resist U.N. demands to destroy them.We'll see. I bet he agrees to destroy the missiles less than an hour before the next UN vote.
"The time has come for us to end the sanctions against Iraq, because those sanctions punish the people of Iraq for having Saddam Hussein as their leader. These sanctions have been instrumental in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children."--Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio), The Progressive, November 2002Did he not know he would run for prez only 3 months ago??? As James Taranto (Best of the Web Today) puts it:"Saddam Hussein should be removed from power. . . . I think the way that you do it is continue to use sanctions which thwart his efforts to grow."--presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, "Meet the Press," Feb. 23, 2003
Such backpedaling from long-held views is, of course, nothing unusual for a presidential candidate, but in this case it's particularly pathetic. Even with his new, more palatable positions, Kucinich is about as likely to be elected president as Janet Reno is to become the next Miss Venezuela.LOL!