than Clark or Dean?
Poverty too is a weapon of mass destruction according to DK. Genetically engineered foods are weapons of mass destruction.
NAFTA, WTO are a form of war too. Why would he endorse people supporting those types of wars or weapons?
There's sadly a little more to it than bombs. Our entire system is war-mongering in more ways than bombs and you, of all people, know that because you've pointed out the obscenity of many of those things these last few years and shared so much with people here.
Who could he possibly endorse? He couldn't in all honesty endorse Clark because he fought him tooth and nail over Yugoslavia and is not too pleased about Clark having drafted the plans for the occupation of Iraq; his response when people asked him if he would consider teaming up with Clark was as clear as one can politely get.
He can't endorse Dean because Dean's in favor of all this decade's past and future wars- just not this one for which we have no real proof of what Dean would have done except for his words (and there have been a few too many inconsistent ones).
Plus neither Clark nor Dean is anti-NAFTA, anti-WTO. Those are 2 very important issues to Kucinich and to his supporters. Just like the wars abroad and just like the domestic war against the little American. Nobody comes close to Kucinich when it comes to a real understanding of how obscene all of this is. Many people seem flabbergasted at the strategic deal he made with Edwards and think it was an endorsement- it was not, but if you look at Edwards closely, he is very much for the little man and is anti-NAFTA (another form of war). He is also not DLC and was dis-enrolled by the DLC. Last summer he was dis-invited from the DLC's annual meeting. Both Dean and Clark were there.
http://www.newdem.org/annualmeeting/A Commitment to Hope and Progress
NDN’s Agenda for the First Decade of the 21st Century
- Expand Prosperity and Opportunity: Create broad-based prosperity, move the federal budget to balance, champion liberalized trade, ensure the integrity and vitality of America’s financial markets, encourage entrepreneurship and innovation and broad access to capital, prepare the country for the retirement of the Baby Boom generation, and re-establish greater progressivity in the tax code.
Assert Responsible Global Leadership: Win the war on terrorism and end international conflicts that threaten our interests, ensure that America’s military is the strongest, most agile, and best equipped in the world, combat AIDS and other pandemics that threaten global stability, and work together with our allies and international organizations to advance democracy, liberty, free markets, opportunities for women, and rising standards of living across the world.
- Protect the Homeland: Help the new Homeland Security Department create and implement a comprehensive homeland security strategy, improve our nation’s counterterrorism intelligence capabilities and performance, ensure those on the frontlines have the very best tools, training and support to protect our communities, secure our nation’s borders and ports without impeding the free flow of goods and people, and fight to protect the civil liberties for all Americans that have long been the envy of the world.
- Strengthen Families and Communities: Put families, children and communities at the very center of our agenda by improving the nation’s schools through higher standards, greater accountability, more choices for parents, quality teachers, and sufficient resources; promoting safe neighborhoods, personal responsibility, and community service; supporting a woman’s right to choose; and striving for equal opportunity for all and a more diverse, integrated, and tolerant nation.
- Modernize Our Health Care System: Provide all with access to quality and affordable health insurance, address the rapid rise of costs, reform and improve Medicare and provide a market-based prescription drug benefit, and invest in and encourage the extraordinary promise of the knowledge revolution in medical care that is perhaps the most important development of our time.
Leave Behind an Even More Beautiful America: Keep our air and water clean, preserve land for future generations, and make America energy independent through greater production here at home, investments in new clean technologies and renewable sources of energy and by launching a national crusade to encourage smart energy use and conservation.
http://www.newdem.org/agenda/I think Kucinich, if he doesn't make it, would gracefully bow out and tell his supporters to do what's in their heart. He knows what the deal is and so do we. Some of us will go with Dean who at least has the redeeming grace of having a people's movement behind him; some will go with Kerry, who is a domestic liberal; some with Clark, who says all the right things; some with Edwards who is for the little man; some will go third party- but all will weigh their conscience and that, I think, is what Kucinich would ask us to do.
Kucinich puts no more stock in Clark and Dean's "I would have" answers than most of us do. Besides, both are pro-occupation and what is occupation if not war?
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