Dennis Kucinich Votes Against 9/11 Anniversary Resolution
Here’s his explanation on his website:
“I honor the memory of those who died on September 11 and extend sympathies to their family members and to those who lost their lives trying to save lives,” Kucinich said.
“I support the troops. I believe the best way to honor the memory of those who died on September 11 is to tell the truth of what the Administration did in the wake of September 11. The Bush Administration launched a war against Iraq, conflating the true tragedy of September 11 with lies about weapons of mass destruction.
“On this, the sixth anniversary of September 11, it is important that Congress wake up to the truth and exercise its obligation under the Constitution to save our nation from being destroyed from the lies that took us into Iraq, the lies that keep us there, the lies that are being used to set the stage for war against Iran and the lies that have undermined our basic civil liberties here at home. The September 11 resolution that Congress considers today should have made reference to those matters. It does not, so I cannot support it.
“This Administration long ago politicized the September 11 attacks, distorted it and dishonored it. If Congress really wanted to honor the memory of those who died on September 11, we would cause the full truth to be told to the American people. If Congress really supported our troops we would bring them home and not provide more funding for the war.”
He’s subtle about it, but we all know what “full truth” it is he’s talking about. That would be 9/11 truth, or the idea that the attacks which happened on this day six years ago were some sort of a government or big-business plot instead of an attack by religious zealots. Something Kucinich has expressed support for before.
Kucinich can paint this protest vote in shades of opposition to the war in Iraq all he wants, but the simple truth is that he voted this way because he doesn’t think 9/11 was a terrorist attack. Which is somewhat akin to think the holocaust didn’t happen.
Interestingly enough, NorthDecoder blogger Chad Nodland thinks Kucinich is “mostly right.” One wonders if Nodland, a former district chairman for the North Dakota Democrats, thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy as well. He might, and that’d probably put him in league with a lot of other people in his party getting the cushy welcome Kucinich is set to receive from them during the nut’s visit to Fargo tomorrow.
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