{"id":26672,"date":"2017-10-10T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26672"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:01:34","slug":"dennis-kucinich-we-must-challenge-the-two-party-duopoly-committed-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26672","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the \u2018Two-Party Duopoly\u2019 Committed to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the \u2018Two-Party Duopoly\u2019 Committed to War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2017\/october\/09\/dennis-kucinich-we-must-challenge-the-two-party-duopoly-committed-to-war\/\">Dennis Kucinich: We Must Challenge the \u2018Two-Party Duopoly\u2019 Committed to War<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"uBlogsy_post_body\">In a new interview with host Jesse Ventura at RT, former United States presidential candidate and House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich stressed the importance of the American people challenging the \u201ctwo-party duopoly that\u2019s committed to war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Kucinich discusses his work to expose the misinformation used to argue for US government interventions overseas before and during the Iraq War and, later, concerning the US effort to assist in the overthrow of the Syria government.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Iraq War, Kucinich, who is an Advisory Board member for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, explains that his research showed that \u201cIraq had nothing to do with 9\/11, nothing to do with al-Qaeda\u2019s role in 9\/11, didn\u2019t have any connection to the anthrax attack, didn\u2019t have the intention or the capability of attacking the United States, and didn\u2019t have the weapons of mass destruction that were being claimed.\u201d This information, Kucinich relates, he provided to US Congress members in an October 2, 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/action.kucinich.us\/page\/-\/email\/Analysis_of_Joint_Resolution_on_Iraq.pdf\">report<\/a> showing \u201cthere was no cause for war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Kucinich and other individuals\u2019 efforts to stop the march toward war, Congress passed an authorization for use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq later in October, and the invasion of Iraq commenced in March of 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich, in the interview, places the Iraq War, with its costs including trillions in US government spending and the death of over a million Iraqis, in the context of \u201cthis American imperium, this idea that somehow we have the right to establish ourselves anywhere we want\u201d including with \u201cover 800 bases in 132 countries\u201d and to go around the world \u201clooking for dragons to slay while we ignore our own problems here at home.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the 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