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US Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said the country lambasted by the Bush administration deserves credit for taking in more than a million Iraqi refugees. Kucinich, a strong anti-war opponent who trails far in the US presidential polls, also 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 in Lebanon, after visiting...

Dennis Kucinich is going to be on our campus for a question/answer session at 7:30 this morning. Of course I'm going to put him on the spot. I think I've got some good brain-busters for him, but I was wondering for some of your opinions too. Kucinich has one of the most quasi-socialist domestic agendas I've ever seen, so I thought maybe something pertaining to that would be nice too. Thanks!

Matt Tapscott spends his free time on weekends trudging door to door in leafy Des Moines neighborhoods, clipboard in hand, trying to make the case that a little-known congressman from Ohio should be the next president of the United States. His candidate, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the onetime mayor of Cleveland, is bunched near the back in a field of 10 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination. From Our Advertisers Hoping to break out, Kucinich tells voters he "represents the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" and offers fundamental change, not tinkering at the edges. That hooked Tapscott. But another hopeful, former...