Reply #13: Here it is. [View All]

[LWolf]

Right on the front page; a transcript, no audio:

http://kucinich.us/statements/statement-041404.php

Kucinich responds to Bush press conference
April 14, 2004

President Bush failed again to answer the one most crucial question that is on the minds of all Americans: when will our troops come home from Iraq?

Instead, he promised more of the same no-end-in sight vision that has marked this unjustified and illegitimate war from the beginning.

His answers to questions about how long our forces will remain were as vague as ever and wholly predictable: “We’ll stay the course. We’ll complete the job. We must not waiver.” And, he said, the United States will continue to “occupy” – his word – Iraq “as long as necessary.”

If more troops are needed, he said, he will send them. “Any concession or retreat,” he said, “will embolden the enemy.”

When will the President realize that our very presence in Iraq has become a lightning rod for increased hostility and increased violence? We can’t afford to stay the course. We need a new course – a reasoned and responsible way out, not a political rationalization for keeping our troops at risk indefinitely. And sending even more troops into harm’s way.

Given the President’s unhesitating willingness to send more and more of our young men and women to a war that was launched on lies and exaggerations, how long will it be before he resorts to a reinstatement of the draft to feed the demands of a thoroughly flawed and totally failed foreign policy?

We went to war for the wrong reasons. We continue to be at war for the wrong reasons. And it’s time to ask the United Nations to assume responsibility so our troops can come home.

This can only come about by the United States' taking an entirely new direction. We must reconnect with the world community through the United Nations, let go of ambitions to control the oil and the contracts, to privatize Iraq, or to run the government by remote control.