Reply #8: Thanks for the kind words about Kucinich, he really does take [View All]

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on the toughest issues in challenging the establishment for the benefit of people. I would hope the other candidates would speak out on the unfair treatment in Texas and the debates, although they have remained silent in the past.

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Another important issue to me was posted here tonight and again none of the other candidates have spoken out on this issue. Four million plus people displaced, countless dead and injured both in our country and in Iraq, and they remain silent. In good conscience I cannot vote for someone who says nothing.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2665314

"The draft law that the US has written for the Iraqi congress would cede nearly all the oil to Western companies. The Iraq National Oil company would retain control of 17 of Iraq's 80 existing oil fields, leaving the rest - including all yet to be discovered oil - under foreign corporate control for 30 years." All in all, a pretty sweet deal for the U.S. and trans-national corporations, paid for in part thus far by the sacrifice of nearly 4,000 American troops and countless thousands of Iraqis, a necessary cost of doing business if you don't mind havin gothers get their hands bloody..."