House Proceeding 06-16-09 on Jun 16th, 2009 :: 0:13:20 to 0:14:45
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Dennis J. Kucinich: like to yield two minutes to the kucinich. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. mr. kucinich: to my friends and that is how do we support the troops by keeping them in a war that's based on lies? how do we support the troops by

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Speech By: Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: keeping them in another war which keeps expanding and they are getting shot at on all si how do we support the troops by festering a war on the afghan border with pakistan and put them in even more peril because they don't have the support? how do we support the troops? we support them by bringing them home. that's what we should be

0:13:58 to 0:14:18( Edit History Discussion )

Dennis J. Kucinich: appropriating money for not to keep them there. beyond that isn't it interesting, we've got another $80 billion here for war. but we don't have money to keep people in their homes because there are still $13 million americans losing their homes. we don't have money for the 50 million americans that don't have health care. we don't have money to save jobs. we don't have money to save our steel mills and auto plants.

0:14:19 to 0:14:39( Edit History Discussion )

Dennis J. Kucinich: what we have is we have money for war. support the troops indeed. america has to start taking care of things here at home. and we can't do it by continuing to support wars that are based on lies. the democrats took control of the congress based on opposition to the war. we should be opposing to this

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Dennis J. Kucinich: war instead of deferring to the president. we have the constitutional obligation under article 1, section 8 of the constitution to