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| 2003-12-31 |
| Keep digging, Dennis. EFL: Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio U.S. Rep.who led a fight in the U.S. House against war in Iraq, visited a mosque Tuesday and told the congregation that he thought American Muslims were unfairly targeted by the U.S. government. How come he didn’t visit the concentration camps in Montana, Oh right... "At this time of rolling back of civil liberties, all Americans need to be worried about any American deprived of his or her rights," Kucinich said at the Islamic Society of Tampa. "All Americans should be very concerned about a government trying to get more and more into peoples’ private lives." Kucinich said his opposition to the war in Iraq will take him to the White House. "OK, so most likely I’ll be out front, yelling through the fence, but I’ll be at the White House." "The war was wrong. It was wrong," he said. "We went to war under false pretenses. Americans were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to be true. Just because they caught Saddam Hussein doesn’t mean going into Iraq was right." No, that’s just a bonus. We were right to go in just because Sammy’s not shoving people into mass graves any more if nothing else. Kucinich also opposed the Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to give the government more access to private records and to make it easier to prosecute accused terrorists. Wonder why an Islamic Society would worry about that? The Islamic Society of Tampa was the planned target of Tampa podiatrist Robert Goldstein, who assembled an arsenal of weapons before he was arrested and in June was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the board of the Florida Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that if the Patriot Act were truly intended to be fair, Goldstein would have been prosecuted under its provisions. "Goldstein could have been used to give the Muslim community more of a sense of comfort," Ahmed said. Hey, Ahmed, Robert was stopped before the attack and he’s doing time. What more do you want, his throat slit on video? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 I would be LMAO but for the fact that about $18mm in tax money is being used to fund this guy's campaign. Maybe the entertainment value is worth it. Naaah, for the cost of a monthly fee (via dialup, or via broadband), one can peek at the DU site and see very similar crap. $18M for second-rate entertainment is waaaay too much. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-31 2:48:54 PM |
| #4 I would be LMAO but for the fact that about $18mm in tax money is being used to fund this guy's campaign. Maybe the entertainment value is worth it. |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-12-31 2:22:16 PM |
| #3 I'm reminded of a line from the Steve Guttenberg/Peter O'Toole flop, "High Spirits": "All I wanted to be was happily useless, you made me miserably useless." - Peter Plunkett Perfect description of Dennis the (non)Menace. Ed |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2003-12-31 1:39:26 PM |
| #2 You've heard to useful idiots; Dennis is a useless idiot. |
| Posted by: Spot 2003-12-31 1:19:04 PM |
| #1 I see Dennis in about 20 years on an infomercial selling The Greatest Hits of the 00's. "Do you remember me? I ran for President back in 2004! No, really! I did!" |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-12-31 1:11:52 PM |