Bush Administration in Crisis Of Legitimacy
The following is a press release from June 24, 2003, by Kucinich's office in Congress.
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Kucinich: Bush Administration in Crisis Of Legitimacy
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the leader of the opposition to the war in Iraq in the House, today, continued his pressure to demand the truth about the Administration's lead-up to the war in Iraq.
Kucinich, on the House floor today, issued the following statement:
"This Administration deliberately led this nation to war based on based on false premises. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11; with Al-Qaeda's role in 9/11; or with the Anthrax attack on this nation. Iraq did not present an imminent threat to the United States. Iraq had no usable weapons of mass destruction. That's why the weapons of mass destruction cannot be found.
"This Administration's deception made America less secure. It has cut off the US from the world community. It violated the US Constitution. It violated the UN Charter. It violated the Geneva Convention. It continues to cost the lives of our men and women in uniform. It has cost the lives of countless innocent Iraqis. It will cost the American taxpayers well over $100 billion. It has caused tens of billions of dollars in damage to Iraq. It has strengthened religious fundamentalists who now threaten the freedom of women in Iraq society.
"This manufactured catastrophe called foreign policy represents not only a failure of truth, a great credibility gap, but more than that, America faces a crisis of the legitimacy of the government itself, which lied to the American people to get approval for a war."
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