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Kucinich Visits Syria, Blasts U.S.
Scooter's Report ^ | 9-6-07 | Scooter Van Neuter

Posted on 09/06/2007 10:59:51 AM PDT by Digital Disaster

Kucinich Visits Syria, Blasts U.S.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said he won't visit Iraq on his trip to the region because he considers the US military deployment there illegal.

"I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation ... I don't want to bless that occupation with my presence," he said in an interview, although insiders say the real reason was because of the very real possibility U.S. troops would fire upon the leftist candidate.

Kucinich met with Syrian President Bashar Assad during his visit to Damascus. He said Assad was receptive to his ideas of "strength through peace, peace through defeating the U.S."

Assad later told reporters he enjoyed his two minute meeting with Kucinich: "Mr. Kuznichie would make a great President and ally, it's too bad he doesn't have a chance in Hell."

Assad_and_kucinich

        Kucinich and Assad


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: assad; democrats; election; syria
Today's news form Scooter
1 posted on 09/06/2007 10:59:52 AM PDT by Digital Disaster
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To: Digital Disaster
...insiders say the real reason was because of the very real possibility U.S. troops would fire upon the leftist candidate.

Self-dramatizing crap.

2 posted on 09/06/2007 11:01:42 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Digital Disaster

“I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation ... I don’t want to bless that occupation with my presence”

it would appear that he isn’t even talking about his own country. What a lousy p.o.s.


3 posted on 09/06/2007 11:02:31 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: Digital Disaster

So he visits the country that occupied Lebanon illegally frot 20 years and assassinates Lebanese politicians at wlll, and he talks about American illegality.

What a piece of excrement.


4 posted on 09/06/2007 11:03:33 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: Digital Disaster

A$$wad and A$$hat


5 posted on 09/06/2007 11:06:03 AM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: xcamel; Billthedrill; denydenydeny; RDTF
Scooter van Neuter = SATIRE, people. (although I wouldn't be shocke if Kucinich actually did this)
6 posted on 09/06/2007 11:11:23 AM PDT by lesser_satan (FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: lesser_satan

Thanks. I’ve never heard of it so wouldn’t know. It should have been posted as satire.


7 posted on 09/06/2007 11:13:55 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: lesser_satan

Alas, sucked in again! This is pretty strong stuff even for Dennis the Menace... ;-)


8 posted on 09/06/2007 11:15:23 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Digital Disaster
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
9 posted on 09/06/2007 11:20:48 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: lesser_satan; Admin Moderator

I’ve had it with parody pieces pretending to be news. When you post an item that purports to be a news story AND YOU CAN’T TELL UNTIL YOU READ THE ENTIRE PIECE THAT IT’S BOGUS, you’re just wasting everyuone’s time. A lot of people get their news from here, and turning it into an episode of “Punk’d” is not what I come here for.

When you fill up the Latest Posts page with phony news stories it makes the forum much less useful and MUCH LESS CREDIBLE. It is a problem.


10 posted on 09/06/2007 11:27:10 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: denydenydeny

Wasn’t the picture obvious enough?


11 posted on 09/06/2007 11:29:12 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Digital Disaster
Now for some real info:

SEPTEMBER 2002 : (FOLLOWING THE RETURN OF FORMER SENATOR ABOUREZK'S DELEGATION FROM IRAQ, DENNIS KUCINICH ANNOUNCES THE FORMATION OF A CONGRESSIONAL ANTIWAR COALITION -- See CPC, MCPL, LEE, MCDERMOTT, AL KHAFAJI, OIL FOR FOOD, SCOTT RITTER) The CPC [ Congressional Progressive Caucus, a socialist lobby] overlaps with the Iraq antiwar lobby organized in September 2002 by CPC Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Kucinich announced the formation of a Congressional antiwar coalition immediately following the return of a delegation to Baghdad co-led by former MCPL Senator James Abourezk. Kucinich’s coalition initially consisted of 19 Democrats, notably CPC members Barbara Lee, who had cast the lone vote against military action in Afghanistan after 9/11, and Jim McDermott, who had also criticized military action against Afghanistan. McDermott would soon follow up Abourezk’s delegation with another trip to Baghdad. Accompanying McDermott’s delegation was Iraqi agent Shakir Al-Khafaji, who later paid McDermott a check. Al-Khafaji had also been using Oil-for-Food vouchers to finance a film by antiwar spokesman Scott Ritter, who met Abourezk’s delegation in Baghdad.
Since 2002, Kucinich’s coalition has spearheaded the movement to defund the war effort. On June 16, 2005, Kucinich’s coalition held a Capitol Hill news conference to announce the introduction of a resolution calling for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq on or before October 1, 2006. The October 2006 deadline came and went, but immediately after the Democrats’ victory in the November 2006 elections, Kucinich began calling on the new Congress to cut off funding for the war. On November 15, 2006, Kucinich said in a floor speech:

One week ago the American people sent a message to this Congress. That message had to do with Iraq. Were the American people asking us to send more troops? No. They want the troops to come home. Were they looking for to expand the war? No. They want us to end the war. There is only one way to end this war. Cut off the funds.
Kucinich echoed these sentiments throughout November and December. Then on January 10, 2007, the day after Murtha unveiled a new antiwar plan, Kucinich introduced a resolution against proposed troop escalation and laid out what he called the Kucinich Plan, which repeated his earlier proposal to cut off war funding:
That’s what the Kucinich Plan, which I [am] presenting to Congress today is all about. Congress is a co-equal branch of government. We have an urgent responsibility here. Congress under Article I, Section 8, has the war-making power. Congress appropriates funds for the war.
Congress does not dispense with its obligation to the American people simply by opposing a troop surge in Iraq. It is simply not credible to maintain that one opposes the war, yet continues to fund it. If you oppose the war, then don’t vote to fund it.
In introducing legislation to defund the war, then, Murtha is following the Kucinich Plan. And Kucinich is following in the footsteps of Fonda.
-----"In Fonda’s Footsteps: Murtha, Kucinich, and the Antiwar Movement’s Economic War," Original FReeper research | 1/15/2007 | By Fedora
12 posted on 09/06/2007 11:33:19 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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