<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 26.0px 0.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; border-color: #ededed transparent #ededed transparent; padding: 4.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; border-collapse: collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 249.0px; padding: 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px 4.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br> June 10, 2009<br> 2:40 PM</font></p> </td> <td valign="top" style="width: 249.0px; padding: 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px 4.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"><b>CONTACT: </b><a href="http://kucinich.house.gov/"><font color="#275585" style="color: #275585"><b>Congressman Dennis Kucinich</b></font></a><br> <a href="mailto:nathan.white@mail.house.gov"><font color="#275585" style="color: #275585">Nathan White</font></a> (202)225-5871</font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 23px; "><font face="Arial" size="6" style="font: 23.0px Arial"><b>“We Cannot Afford These Wars”</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">WASHINGTON - June 10 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">“Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, had no intention or capability of attacking United States, had nothing to do with Al-Qaida’s role in 9/11, and each and every statement made by the previous administration in support of going to war turned out to be false.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">“Yet here we are. A new administration and the same old war, with an expansion of the war in Afghanistan. We cannot afford these wars. We cannot afford these wars spiritually. They are wars of aggression and they are based on lies. We cannot afford these wars financially. They add trillions to our national debt and destroy our domestic agenda. We cannot afford the human cost of these wars, the loss of lives of our beloved troops and the deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. So, why do we do this? Why do we keep funding wars when they are so obviously against truth and justice and when they undermine our military? These are matters of heart and conscience, which must be explored. Our ability to bring an end to these wars will be the real test of our power.</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div>
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