speaking with congressman dennis kucinich it p_d_a_s twenty ten who
annual conference i guess you could call it great to speak to you after talking
to on the phone so many times thanks for doing this interview with you un
pakistan
n_c_r_ three a long time i'll ask house concurrent resolution three oh one
tell me if i understand you correctly the ideas we've never formally authorize
they decided to send troops to pakistan they're they're summer dying you want to
get the mouth exactly and
there there despite the fact that congress is never made a decision to
send troops
to pakistan
were expanding u_s_ involvement on the ground
how does that happen how does it happen now how does it happen without congress
being actively involved
so i'm forcing with ron paul south
together were forced forcing about
i would think on tuesday and in the house
time now whether or not we should withdraw from pakistan
and i think that it's important that we continue this process of questioning why
u_s_ troops are in certain areas and under whose consent
the immediate pakistan government which is denying that our troops are there
pertain to ninety-three troops died bright maybe they ask us into some kind
of better conversation would guess what
the u_s_ congressman improvement
so leads i think it's important to keep raising this issue about
the expansion of war
and uh... and and ron paul's helping me raise it this tuesday announced with
respect to afghanistan most of the estimates i look at it is between fifty
and a hundred taliban left there
and we think about the number of troops we have their and the number of tell
them you're there
it seems
wholly disproportionate does it not a man i'm wrong and this is something
that's something i'm not seeing their or does it not make so i don't know what
the number of taliban arm but i will say this we've got to get out of it can
stand
we are there is no nick nation building to be done there
plans there is only a corrupt karzai government
whose relatives are making off like band-aids
who are blue nose relatives are building village ago a bill is in dubai
five the there are millions of dollars
uh... of u_s_ funds
going out of the country
to places unknowing
their are their unknown unknown zip codes are always wears away we have to
look at it
we know they they have to uh... we know that
when bundles of cash fly out
cobble
we know that happen and we know it's american money
they have to declare it actually so long as i declared its ok word comes from
welcomes the u_s_ tax dollars
but where does too
there's only assumptions
but one thing for sure it's not going to feed the people of the dennis tan
it's not going to provide for their security
what's an example of where it where you think it's gone
the general assumption is jazz d
money that goes into replenished and
and and we're talking about billions of dollars
that there's little or no bility to keep track of it
and so on
since the karzai government
runs whatever government apparatus exists there
my guess is that would be going to
to support the interests of people in the government
that have nothing to do with the people of afghanistan
and and and and you know the corruption within cars as government and within his
family is legendary
the the question is what are we doing it again a stand wireless error why why do
we continued
when we know
that u_s_ presence has hands
killed an insurgency why do we continue
to promote an occupation
why aren't we getting out why is there a surge wire we permitted more of
ourselves we kill wire there more
through to a size y
are are we no ring
the needs of our nation here at home
instead of pushing this expansion of over war
wire we in pakistan why do we keep in iraq wire would beating the drums for
war against iran wire we
sending forty-seven warships and seven thousand reads the costa rica
what's going on in this country was nice why is it that america
suddenly the only definition we have as a nation
is is militarism
the only definition we have as a nation
is that is that we have such great military power but we don't have the
power to feed everyone we don't have the power to give everyone a job we don't
have the power
to make sure
that everyone can have a good education but we have the power
to trip to take over our her briefly
there is no issue is will you know what
we had a u_n_ in nation building a nation building room believes it seems a
geisha priorities in a sense of just heard on the came last week in his ears
on the debate
more funding for teachers is poor but what about a tax break the raytheon and
similar companies and it seems like an obvious priority
would you call it a difference bumbling of priorities a i would you describe
that
and teachers tax cut for raytheon
it's to meet incredible
well it states the
parameters of the debate in america
we take the wealth of the nation put into the hands of a few or do we help
everyone
learn how to
he self-sufficient
and you believe john mccain is choosing to do and i'm not a characterize
anything my friend john mccain does i will tell you that
that there's a type of thinking in washington where people are just there
too
taker various interest groups it's a fact
we are twenty ten design
some punch out of there but i am concerned that the united states is
going to deepen its involvement
in war
and it's you do you believe that democrats losing seats is going to we
took over the house members as is on a promise to end the war
interact
those two thousand
and six here we are two thousand ten maybe they were never promised end the
war again it was no believe us
we've got to the obama administration catches say we're going to pull our
troops as the pullout kids kids is brought down
and say well we're out of iraq and the fifty thousand troops there
you know i mean fifty thousand
of or none
night guide i'd say no i'm
but fifty thousand you can see fifty thousand nothing cuz m nullify zigs
isn't so stroked and the argument that the the differential in the house was
not big enough to make it happen while i don't think you know we we need
leadership on this it's not a matter of five more democrats are quite likely
need leadership we don't need
congress is and isn't it dictating troop levels
absolutely congressman dennis kucinich thanks for speaking with us well and a
anybody's within the sound of my voice
uh... the resolution that word
require troops to be taken out of pakistan because senator paul resolution
house
concurrent resolution three oh one
make some calls about a place thank you