Question: If you were an Iraqi, how would you view America?
Dennis Kucinich: How would you view America if a country invaded yours and killed your family; wrecked your home; destroyed your water systems, and electric systems, and schools and mosques? How would you . . . What would you think of that country that did that? I mean we have to get real about the impact of what this administration’s decisions as licensed by a Democratic Senate in 2002 – the impact these decisions have had on the people of Iraq. The people of Iraq have lost at least a million innocent civilians who perished in this war, a war that’s been based on lies. Now since Iraq is one-twelfth the population of the United States, let’s take that million and let’s extrapolate it to the United States. It would be as if we lost 12 million people. How would we feel if a foreign power invaded our country, blew it up, killed 12 million people? Would we like them? Would we ask them to come in and have tea? If we saw Saddam Hussein executed for “killing his own people” – if it was wrong for him to kill his own people, is it right for us to kill his people? I mean we have to regain our moral compass here. So how . . . how should Iraq look at us? Well they sure shouldn’t look at us as liberators because we stayed. And we stayed and went and fought door-to- (48:37) door. And why did we go there from the beginning? Did we go there for liberty? Did we go there for the American flag? Did we go there because we were trying to bring American values to Iraq? Or did we go there for oil? Let’s think about it. How should the people of Iraq look at us? They should look at us from 10,000 miles away.
Recorded on: 10/19/07
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Glenna Mayer on January 16, 2008, 4:26 PM
I would view the US as I do now as a US citizen, with disgust and revulsion.
Glenna Mayer on January 16, 2008, 9:26 PM
I would view the US as I do now as a US citizen, with disgust and revulsion.
Eco Student on January 19, 2008, 4:09 PM
Bush went in after WMDs but the only ones with WMDs is the US. What hypocrisy! If muslims invaded US you'd be fighting them all the way, but you wouldn't consider yourselves terrorists for doing so. US is the real terrorist. Bush wants to hit Iran now. Someone needs to stop bush in a permanent way!
Eco Student on January 19, 2008, 9:09 PM
Bush went in after WMDs but the only ones with WMDs is the US. What hypocrisy! If muslims invaded US you’d be fighting them all the way, but you wouldn’t consider yourselves terrorists for doing so. US is the real terrorist. Bush wants to hit Iran now. Someone needs to stop bush in a permanent way!
Omar Sapayeen on January 20, 2008, 9:22 PM
Wow…A brilliant and daring comment from an American politician.
This is why I cannot vote in the coming election for any of the major candidates participating. Hilary was kissing up to the neoconservative pro-war crowd throughout the Bush administration. Only at the end does she profess some awareness that the war wasn't a great idea. Obama claims to have been against it, but nothing proves he actually acted on that view. Less said on the Republicans the better.
War against terrorism? War of terror. Terror is what the Iraqis felt when we invaded their countries and showered them with bombs. And why? Because we were angry with one Arab in Afghanistan, and since he was out of our reach, we decided to level another Arab country.
Omar Sapayeen on January 21, 2008, 2:22 AM
Wow…A brilliant and daring comment from an American politician.
This is why I cannot vote in the coming election for any of the major candidates participating. Hilary was kissing up to the neoconservative pro-war crowd throughout the Bush administration. Only at the end does she profess some awareness that the war wasn’t a great idea. Obama claims to have been against it, but nothing proves he actually acted on that view. Less said on the Republicans the better.
War against terrorism? War of terror. Terror is what the Iraqis felt when we invaded their countries and showered them with bombs. And why? Because we were angry with one Arab in Afghanistan, and since he was out of our reach, we decided to level another Arab country.
Tristan Heindl on January 21, 2008, 10:22 PM
Its time for the world to realize that the "west" military industrial complex pumps iraq full of weapons. Regardless which side they sell them to. There would be no war if we didnt insist on ARMING THE WORLD. THX to you 5 permanent UN members the world is a dangerous place. You sell your weapons and small arms to every side and enable wars to happen. I deem the United States of America an UNDEVELOPED NATION.
Tristan Heindl on January 22, 2008, 3:22 AM
Its time for the world to realize that the “west” military industrial complex pumps iraq full of weapons. Regardless which side they sell them to. There would be no war if we didnt insist on ARMING THE WORLD. THX to you 5 permanent UN members the world is a dangerous place. You sell your weapons and small arms to every side and enable wars to happen. I deem the United States of America an UNDEVELOPED NATION.
pokój! on January 24, 2008, 6:27 PM
You are too human to be a politician! I hope someday you are allowed to participate in debates…
pokój! on January 24, 2008, 11:27 PM
You are too human to be a politician! I hope someday you are allowed to participate in debates…
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